Example sentences of "'d been used " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 2 | She 'd been used to hopping around and flapping about wherever she pleased , so it came as a bit of a shock to find her freedom of movement restricted by the jesses . |
| 3 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
| 4 | He could tell she 'd been used to ordering people about at one time . |
| 5 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 6 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |