Example sentences of "[noun] use [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Piper O'Rourke used her hand to shield the beam of her torch as she crept along the darkened corridors of Belial Base towards the main airlock .
2 2 Maintaining his hold on the attacker , the defender uses his block to pull the attacker onto a rising knee to the stomach .
3 Sir Bryan used his 7-wood to plant the ball neatly on the green .
4 In a recent and important case concerning copyright in weekly television programme listings , the Court held that it is an abuse for a copyrightholder to use its copyright to prevent the introduction of a new product for which there is potential commercial demand , into a market of which the copyrightholder has a monopoly .
5 But while Cavalcanti uses his traitor to question the existing social order , Powell-Pressburger's Thomas Colpepper remains the guardian of the best English traditions .
6 It asks how service personnel use their position to help the customer ; how the eight hours of their day are spent .
7 Joan Halton used her husband to express the emotional greed of which she was so frightened in herself .
8 Dreamer used his knife to cut the red snow into blocks .
9 Sonia 's deportation was only reversed because the Home Secretary used his discretion to consider the compassionate circumstances of her case .
10 Paul used his computer to crack the code and continued as before .
11 He then returned to Wessex to raise more men , whereupon there was another unsuccessful assault on the city , which ended with the Scandinavians being pursued into Kent , where Ealdorman Eadric went over to Edmund ; Cnut used his fleet to cross the Thames estuary to Essex , and proceeded from there to ravage Mercia .
12 The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money .
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