Used To / Would Dictation: Being Used to Something

Listen for the form of be before used to. Here the phrase means someone is familiar with a situation, not simply that they did something in the past. After to, you may hear a noun or an ing form. Keep that ending: it belongs to this familiarity pattern. Was and were can place the familiarity in the past, and not says it was absent. Being familiar does not necessarily mean liking something. Hear the full description without adding a positive feeling the speaker has not expressed.