Example sentences of "[verb] been used to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 2 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 3 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 4 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 5 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 6 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 7 | In some areas the new standard might differ markedly from that we have been used to in Britain . |