Example sentences of "used the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has used the many traditional farms and farm buildings owned by the National Trust in the region to give a reflection of everyday life over the past three centuries . |
| 2 | Other seed baits I have used successfully on the Severn are tares and maple peas , but I have not used the latter two very often and do not yet know if they are going to be consistently successful . |
| 3 | W. Lancaster 's 13/0 stainless steel cutlery : some customers have used the same set for 20 years |
| 4 | ‘ We 've always used the same recipe , ’ he says . |
| 5 | He 'd used the same technique sometimes as a prelude to complaining about his marriage . |
| 6 | I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice . |
| 7 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 8 | Nearly two-thirds have used the same type of credit more than once in the last two years . |
| 9 | And he was delighted to find that these forerunners of pop journalism had used the same skills as those on which he prided himself to stamp events into the nation 's consciousness . |
| 10 | The Rampton Report ( 1981 ) had used the same processes of data collection and presentation , comparing only overarching ethnic categories such as West Indian , Asian and White with no discussion of sex differences within each . |
| 11 | It is an ‘ Asian path ’ , but of course it would lie along the other half of the great circle had we used the same model for a R N transition , giving an ‘ Americas path ’ . |
| 12 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 13 | It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction . |
| 14 | He had used the same reply himself on occasion . |
| 15 | They have both used the same quotation but the first writer takes it wholesale . |
| 16 | All the while that he had been speaking , he had used the same flat , expressionless tone . |
| 17 | More recent composers , such as Verdi and Puccini , have used the same scheme but with an ‘ arioso ’ narration more melodically defined and extended than was the old recitative . |
| 18 | In more recent times , Luciano Berio has used the same technique in his Sinfonia , Labirintus H , and electronic works , so that we seem to be hearing different music — symphonic , jazz , military , vocal , etc. — as if radios were tuned to different stations and the music merging , conflicting , and changing . |
| 19 | He is such fun , the intelligent person 's humorous read à la David Lodge ( Penguin has used the same cover illustrator , Paul Cox ) . |
| 20 | Even if he had used the same words , his non verbal communication in the two situations would have conveyed a very different attitude . |
| 21 | We have used the same device to produce Guinness Draught Bitter in a can — our first non-stout product in the UK to bear the Guinness name . |
| 22 | It 's hot in the kitchen , Bacon 's burning , now she 's used the same sort of thing , it 's hot in the kitchen Bacon 's burning , you too could use the play on words for the idea of bacon and burning and cooking and sizzling if you want to be really gruesome . |
| 23 | My second book , although it has used the same idea of telekinetic powers , has a completely different story line . |
| 24 | Everybody 's had a , and they 've all used the same word , apart from Peter who goes a bi little bit further than |
| 25 | I 've used the same numbers for years |
| 26 | Right , what I want you to do , and we 've used the same two teams as we , we 've used last time . |
| 27 | We replaced them by closed stoves or by central heating boilers , which were so much more efficient that they essentially have used the same amount of fuel and we have simply become more comfortable in the process . |