Example sentences of "[adv] use [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our vet says we will know if the melanomas spread internally as the mane will lose condition very quickly and in the meantime keep on using her as if nothing is wrong . |
| 2 | Worse , she had been prepared to let him go on using her , had he chosen to do so . |
| 3 | But you 're having because I think if we are going to carry on using them , these absences should be translated into suspensions , and if that there 's any problem we do know that situation pertains . |
| 4 | ‘ He should carry on if he wants to and I for one will go on using him — he 's the best ! ’ |
| 5 | We have two sorts of customers — those who are happy with DOS and want to carry on using it , and those who eventually want to move to Windows . |
| 6 | And they do n't really want to go on using you as a a sort of prop , because I mean you ca n't afford that because you 've got lots of other clients and you , you know really the aim is to try and get them back to self-sufficiency . |
| 7 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 8 | If properly used it could improve the quality of life by a considerable degree . |
| 9 | I rarely used them when I was a legitimate student much preferring the local pubs . |
| 10 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 11 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 12 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 13 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 14 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 15 | It is beginning to be recognised that proficiency in more than one language often carries with it the need to be what one might term ‘ crosslingual ’ , that is , able to generate connections across languages rather than only using them independently of each other . |
| 16 | I could n't have Cal thinking this creature had anything to do with me — I 'd have to explain I was only using him to threaten Mum and Dad with . |
| 17 | If you take it to make yourself numb , in order to forget or to help you sleep , you are only using it to mask the symptoms of a distressing situation which will still be there tomorrow . |
| 18 | A better solution perhaps is to leave the pad out of the filter altogether only using it when necessary . |
| 19 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 20 | That 's what I find so insulting : they are constantly using us to sell things . |
| 21 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 22 | Belonged to an old lady who only used it once a week for shopping . ’ ’ |
| 23 | I 'm glad I did n't buy a sling because I only used it a couple of times . |
| 24 | The House passed this by 416–0 , and the Senate by 88–2 , and Johnson constantly used it later when he stepped up American involvement in Vietnam . |
| 25 | Apparently Charles only uses it to entertain VIPs . |
| 26 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 27 | She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan . |
| 28 | ‘ Once before you dared to think I would so use you . |
| 29 | If you have you could perhaps use them along with the video text as a package grouped around a theme . |
| 30 | I believe bus drivers already have radio communication ; could they perhaps use it to report the illegally parked vehicle and summon a towaway unit ? |