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Discover LudwigThe phrase "having been used to" is correct and can be used in written English in certain contexts
For example, you might say, "Having been used to working in a more laid-back environment, the strict rules at the new office were a bit of a shock for me."
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Having been used to a specific European clientele, Mr. Asch says the fresh faces offer a new challenge.
She particularly dreaded the meals, having been used to a delicious diet of vegetable curries, sugar cane, passion fruit and Alphonso mangoes.
Reporting in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers said that rather than being used to dig in hard, rocky soil, the tools showed signs of having been used to break up termite mounds.
And it's never quite gone away as an idea, having been used to justify green taxes, pay for the New Deal for the young unemployed, and support the huge boost in health spending after 2002.
Despite being coated with lunar dust, having been used to clean camera lenses during Apollo 14, no one was prepared to pay the asking price of $125,000 175,000.
This is likely to have been James Andanson, who exacted the murder in his own Fiat, pushed the car and a strobe light having been used to blind Henri Paul," Fayed said.
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I've been used to being C.E.O.
It has been used to prosecute whistleblowers.
Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign.
I've been used to the kicks, they're normal.
A false name has been used to protect his identity.
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