Example sentences of "[pers pn] be used to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm used to similar excerpts in The Telegraph and in the local press , but do n't expect them to be so boring . |
| 2 | I 'm used to that . |
| 3 | I 'm used to that . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh — I 'm used to that , I 'm used to being criticized , despised . |
| 5 | I 'm used to all that by now . |
| 6 | I 'm used to hard work , ’ Tess insisted . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'm used to three big meals a day . |
| 8 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |
| 9 | ‘ I was used to that at Glasgow Rangers . |
| 10 | ‘ They were very interested in me , but I was used to that from men . |
| 11 | Oh it was heavy but I was used to heavy stuff on . |
| 12 | But they are just as difficult to read if you are used to political hypocrisy . |
| 13 | The water is normally like crystal and , if you are used to British waters , it is strange to see bubbles from other divers , rising like plumes some 40 or 50 metres away . |
| 14 | It is relief , I think , and we must marry soon , I can not bear to wait , and you wo n't mind living in a little house in Vetch Street when you are used to this , will you ? ’ |
| 15 | The layout of the Alpha 2.0 is n't the simplest to get to grips with without some help — especially if you 're used to such simple machines as the Alesis Quadraverb — and the fact that the manual seems to require a PhD in logistics to understand just makes it all the more frustrating . |
| 16 | She was used to that . |
| 17 | He sounded so utterly unlike the Leo she thought she was used to that she automatically obeyed . |
| 18 | She was used to draughty spaces , soaring walls , a nightly ritual of wraps and hot bricks in winter . |
| 19 | She was used to insolent treatment from fellow servants — for she had long learned that a companion , be she never so genteel , was regarded as little more than that . |
| 20 | She was used to this by now and dealt with every approach quietly and without fuss . |
| 21 | She was used to this , and did not flinch . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's quite large for around here , ’ the woman told her , and , even though it was nowhere near as large as Leith 's present flat , nor in the area that she was used to either , she was in a ‘ beggars ca n't be choosers ’ situation . |
| 23 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |
| 24 | Here in the UK we are used to major variations in water chemistry from area to area despite this being only a small country ; the huge Amazon system , however , consists generally of soft and acid waters . |
| 25 | We are used to evil men demanding a ransom before their victim can be released . |
| 26 | We are used to this , to the extent that we become blase about it . ’ |
| 27 | Both sides ' form has dipped but Newcastle might just be the more resilient , with McDermott adding : ‘ We are used to this — when you are a club the size of Newcastle and runaway leaders in the first division , every game is a pressure game . |
| 28 | We 're used to that , though . |
| 29 | Secondhand , of course , but we 're used to that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Being in the country we were used to good fresh stuff . |