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Level: advanced
Category: grammar
Topic: to be used to

The Expression: To Be Used To

Make sentences as in the examples. Use PRESENT and PAST tenses.

Haz frases como el ejemplo. Emplea PASADO y PRESENTE

Example: It was my first time in a boat and I got sea sick
I wasn't used to boats.

  1. It's been five years since I last played golf and I played horribly.
  2. Bill, my new boss, has a strange working style compared with mine.
  3. It was very difficult to understand what people were saying my first few days in England
  4. When we first got married, I didn't like Mary's cooking
  5. When we painted our house, I wasn't happy with the color until a few months after.
  6. Ivor, who's from Sweden, got a job in Sevilla. The heat really bothered him the first summer
  7. Paul had good relations with his old boss. When he got a new boss, he really hadn't been prepared to accept criticism.
  8. Mary got depressed when her last son got married. She felt that she had nothing to do anymore
  9. When Anna moved from her small hometown to New York, the pace of the big city was too much for her
  10. Carlos was transferred to the Mexico City office of his firm. He doesn't like the spicy food there

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Created:  2005-06-14
Updated: 2007-02-27

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