Example sentences of "him use [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They questioned whether air traffic controllers should have over-ruled Captain Fuchs and insisted on him using a remote runway . |
| 2 | I remembered him using the word malfunction , ‘ a surgically induced malfunction ’ , that was it . |
| 3 | He was a punctilious blighter and I ca n't see him using the Lab as a convenient place for a rendezvous . |
| 4 | Lean times were to follow and three years later we find him using the backs of sheets of his Jedburgh map to draw a privately commissioned plan . |
| 5 | This time she heard him use a rude word , and said out aloud , ‘ Oh , Michael , you should never say that . ’ |
| 6 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 7 | Cassie had heard many shades of emotion expressed by Johnny 's voice , indeed it was a powerful weapon and one he knew only too well how to use to good effect , but never had she heard him use the particular tone with which he now addressed his wife . |
| 8 | If you get him to do erm addition and multiplication , let him use the calculator , let him |
| 9 | I let him use the toilet . |
| 10 | I look at him — when I can bear to and frankly if you can persuade him to use a clean T-shirt you 'll be doing all of us a favour — I look at him and I remember dear little chubby hands clutching one , and the way their faces used to smell of soap and milk . |
| 11 | ‘ Patrick McGoohan , who wrote the series , was looking for a car to use and Lotus tried to persuade him to use the Elan , ’ says Graham Nearn , managing director of Caterham Cars , which still makes the Seven today . |
| 12 | In vain she had pleaded and begged him to use the train . |
| 13 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 14 | I remember how he flew unhesitatingly to Peru to protest openly against the bombing of human rights organisations there — and took the personal decision that it would be , in his carefully chosen words , ‘ inappropriate ’ for him to use the special security protection he was provided with . |
| 15 | Which pair of measurements for ( a ) will allow him to use the least amount of steel edging ? |
| 16 | Erm that was er Steve from the Youth Centre because we 've just er told him how much it 's going to cost him to use the school premises next year , and he 's thrown a dickey fit . |
| 17 | The fact that the firms allowed him to use the money for his own purposes and replace it was merely an indulgence . |
| 18 | There was no need for him to use the overdraft . |
| 19 | Although in this case the seller will find it hard to argue with the buyer 's concerns , where the seller himself provides the items ( even if he charges the buyer directly or indirectly for their provision ) he may well wish to keep ownership himself , either to tie the buyer to him for future orders , or to enable him to use the items for sales to third parties , even if this is to the buyer 's detriment , and against his consent . |
| 20 | In examples such as this , de Man 's argument coincides with Nietzsche 's , allowing him to use the mode of paraphrase , which is characterised by a degree of authorial absence . |
| 21 | For instance , it enabled him to use the very struggle for a subject , which had occupied so much of his line , since we can partly see that struggle as a struggle within Milton over his own humanist heritage . |
| 22 | The Argentinian has a permanent wrist injury caused by pounding too many balls on hard practice grounds , which has forced him to use an unorthodox fore-knuckle left- hand grip . |