Example sentences of "was use the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 2 | He had beaten the New Zealander Jack Lovelock in the AAA mile — one of five consecutive championship victories — but Lovelock , the more experienced runner , was using the race chiefly to see how and when this little man used that devastating sprint . |
| 3 | Hobhouse , in these paragraphs , was using the word ‘ mind ’ to refer particularly to a knowing capacity that functions in the construction of effective policies of behaviour with respect to individual and group survival and reproduction . |
| 4 | Unlike civilian frogmen , who use compressed air , Crabb was using the naval closed-circuit oxygen diving equipment which leaves no trail of tell-tale bubbles to disclose a diver 's presence . |
| 5 | During his absence , Craddock was using the room , as the amount of space available in the department was very limited . |
| 6 | Now , as the party fodder turned up in their glittering clothes , I began to see that Eva was using the evening not as a celebration but as her launch into London . |
| 7 | In fact he was using the Parsons-White string bender , the one where you pushed down the neck of the guitar and that moved a mechanism which raised the B-string by a tone , but I did n't have a clue about that . |
| 8 | The malaise that had troubled him did not go away until , one day , when he was using the chamber-pot upstairs , he noticed an angry sore on his penis . |
| 9 | I remember this fear quite distinctly as that of being swallowed up into some great emptiness : the struggle for individual identity , central to phenomenon of anorexia nervosa , had already begun , and already I was using the appropriate metaphor . |
| 10 | One more ‘ accident ’ that happened when I was using the Brother cast-off linker . |
| 11 | For the moment , anyway , he was using the old methods on the 7 December dummy . |
| 12 | In speaking of something being necessarily so and not otherwise , Anselm was using the language of his theological speculations , and he did not use the phrase lightly . |
| 13 | Another time , I was using the tape in private to record some of my own thoughts and observations . |
| 14 | The first of these , Sea Change , was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1948 and in an interview the author explained the way in which he was using the adventure-story genre : |
| 15 | He was using the treaty not so much to conquer as to acquire legitimately what he regarded as his own by right . |
| 16 | At the time , the ‘ Branch ’ was using the name of Salford University Convocation without the authority of the University . |
| 17 | I had to go upstairs to tell the woman above that I was using the bathroom , because if she walked about above , the plaster fell off . |
| 18 | your worships Mrs appears before the court today as a result of an accident which occurred on the twenty fifth of July at about four thirty in the afternoon it was on King Street at Worley and there was only her vehicle involved and a young girl who was using the pedestrian crossing . |
| 19 | In fact Miss Phillips was using the subjunctive mood quite correctly ; compare ‘ I order that you be taken from this court … ’ or ‘ Lawyers have asked that the president not testify … ’ . |
| 20 | He was using the common coin of the judicial language which is frequently employed to remind the jury of their duty in a serious case and their Lordships do not consider that he overstepped the limits of his obligation to ensure a fair trial . |
| 21 | She was using the man 's death to work at his sympathy . |
| 22 | The two slaves were hacking at his thighs now , and two more came forward , moving jerkily , so that Nuadu knew that the Robemaker was using the Stroicim Inchinn on them also . |
| 23 | Dexter was wary : he was using the banter to keep the man at a distance . |
| 24 | A police officer with a sheaf of papers before him was using the desk telephone presumably still checking alibis . |
| 25 | They closed on the knife blade , twisted it out of the man 's hand , and then he was using the whole false arm as a metal club slamming down on the upraised arms , jabbing for the face , forcing the man back step by step until the edge of the track was only one more step away . |
| 26 | He was using the cordless phone she and David had bought him last Christmas . |
| 27 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 28 | He was using the phone . |
| 29 | Why not just ask him ? she wondered as she stepped over the outstretched leg of Polly Inferno , aka Amanda Stern from Lanarkshire , who was using the corridor space for some warmup exercises and somehow , at the same time , studying a book . |
| 30 | It could only be a matter of time before Wainfleet was using the information for his own purposes . |