The phrase "a man I used" is not correct in standard written English as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It could be used in a context where you are referring to a man you previously interacted with or relied upon, but it needs additional information to clarify its meaning.
Example: "He was a man I used to trust, but things have changed."
Alternatives: "a man I relied on" or "a man I knew."
What the doctor gave her then was "a life sentence of uneasy love for a man I used to fear," a man who verbally abused her.
Messing around on Facebook recently, I was appalled to see a man I used to work with gleefully posting about Trump's election win.
I told him it had reminded me of a man I used to know who went off his trolley so violently, he couldn't look out of his window without seeing the 19th century happening in impeccable detail out on the street... "Where the seasons are mud or dust," I roughly quoted, "and carriages are like black tin cash boxes on wheels".
After reading Dylan's open letter describing her experience, published by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in early February, I was forced to reexamine my perceptions of a man I used to consider one of my favorite filmmakers.
A Man Is Using Math To Create An Impossible 4D Video Game.
Lawson says: "Greenspan is a nice man, an amusing man and an interesting man, I used to know him very well and he is highly intelligent, but he got it all wrong – completely wrong".
As a young man I used to binge drink, all through my Tottenham days, when I was at Swindon and even at West Ham.
When I was a younger man, I used to fancy that I understood quite well what was meant by the term "not-being," which is our present subject of dispute; and now you see in what a fix we are about it.
As a gay man, I used to think that I knew.
As an Azhar man, I used to have Brotherhood friends, but I stopped talking to them because of the way they ruled".
"In the first book, there's a poem called 'Docker', which is about a bigoted, dangerous man I used to see in the corner of a local pub.
