Example sentences of "[pers pn] get used " in BNC.

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1 Instead of him being a mate , I loathed him after that until I got used to the idea .
2 He does know that they 're powerful : ‘ I got used to playing around with Tony 's guitars , and although the fact that he sometimes detunes and uses very light strings does n't help the output , these pickups are very powerful — a fair bit more powerful than conventional humbuckers . ’
3 Once I got used to the screen , I found that it was OK to use , but I suspect that it would n't suit everybody .
4 " I did n't mind much ; I got used to it .
5 When I got used to the light I could see two men sitting grinning at me .
6 At first I was scared , but after a while I got used to it .
7 I was afraid at first , but then I got used to it .
8 I got used to doing what I wanted to do .
9 The first thing I never went to the doctor with when I , I tumbled off the wall down cut me head open and that 's the only , and then after I got used to playing football they must 've , have put a steel inset into your head the way I head that ball .
10 Because although I hated it worse than anything , I did enjoy it too , once I got used to it .
11 I got used to them .
12 I got used , I got used to it now .
13 I got used , I got used to it now .
14 I you we I got used to Wendy 's .
15 ‘ I 'm hoping to be changed back before I get used to it , ’ she said ( with considerable spirit , bearing in mind how hopeless she felt ) .
16 It might be when I get used to it .
17 I get used to it .
18 I get used to being whatever
19 After several more sessions out in the country , Hoomey got the hand of it , and learned that , even if he could n't stop , he could steer , and that sitting on Bones 's enormous flights through the atmosphere was comparatively easy once you got used to it , far easier than poor Jazz 's problem of trying to stay aboard when Spot , cantering quite easily towards the jump , put his anchors out at the last minute and stopped dead .
20 And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it .
21 He told me that the first three days were an agony , thirst being the greatest torture , then slowly the body reversed its patterns and you got used to it .
22 True , it faced north , but you got used to that .
23 You got used to it .
24 But you got used to it .
25 U and of course the There were things that er y you got used to , you see ?
26 You could easily get lost , at first , until you got used to it .
27 After you got used to the conventions of his speech , he became readily comprehensible : shah-al-arhee was the mali 's rendering of salary . )
28 You got used to it .
29 If you were a Parquet lawyer you got used to cases getting nowhere ; but that did n't mean you liked it .
30 But she got used to me and started to do it herself and in the end we were both very comfortable and relaxed . ’
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