Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
| 2 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 3 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 4 | She had been used to teaching in a country where English was the second language . |
| 5 | We had been used to seeing bigger names travel here but somehow or other they never showed top form . |
| 6 | It might well prove to be all they could do to find their way across the heather to some quiet field or copse-bank like those they had been used to . |
| 7 | Cause he had been used to me lookin' after him doon at my mother 's hoose … |
| 8 | A few smashed windows , drink , a fight or two , umpteen girls almost ‘ conquered ’ , long tall stories almost believed — but compared with what he had been used to it was the lure of the Orient , freedom , the cry of the Sirens . |
| 9 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 10 | Ironically , it was change that had driven Tubby back to active service — change in civvy street and in the set ways of the pre-war world he had been used to . |
| 11 | It was only that none of this was quite what he had been used to . |
| 12 | As a student in Trinity College he had been used to doing six hours a week . |