Example sentences of "use [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 2 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 3 | It allowed a splinter party , Swapo-Democrats , to appropriate and register the symbol which Swapo used for nearly 30 years , a hand holding a flaming torch . |
| 4 | Its HSTs are provided from a combined pool of trains based at Neville Hill Depot ( Leeds ) used for both the Midland and East Coast main line services . |
| 5 | I had my daughter treated under an assumed name until she was five , to try and prevent the press from finding out things about her , and they have the secret name that I used for here in here . |
| 6 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 7 | PIXE analyses of the reagents ( many of them ARISTAR quality ) used in both immunohistochemical staining and silver-staining procedures showed trace levels of contaminants , despite filtering through 0.2-μm filters . |
| 8 | Well it 's the T words here , that 's what I used in there . |
| 9 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |
| 10 | Not every day like we used to just after her accident , but quite a lot all the same . |
| 11 | I would like to see the ‘ advance ’ man ( or woman ) used to much greater effect in this country . |
| 12 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 13 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 14 | You were n't supposed to turn the radio off , but I used to so they could n't hear me singing along with the tape . |
| 15 | Athens , then , was not doctrinaire in the methods she used to further her interests on the mainland . |
| 16 | In the heyday of the temples , the scribes used at least two linear scripts , and the evolution and interpretation of those scripts are matters of continuing controversy among scholars . |
| 17 | In ordinary language , the word ‘ faith ’ is used in a quite different sense from that used by either Wesley or Locke and Copleston . |
| 18 | Was n't she used by now to disguising her love for him ? |
| 19 | The office was smaller and tidier than the one used by Inside Out , although laid out in a similar way with desks back to back . |
| 20 | ‘ Production at that time was polyester and polyamide for a wide variety of end uses including almost all types of clothing — and for carpets and industrial needs from tyre reinforcement to sewing threads , ’ said Coleman . |
| 21 | The notion that ‘ primitive ’ societies classify and organise their intellectual world simply in terms of their crude ‘ needs ’ , which Goody derives from Malinowski and uses to further characterise ‘ oral ’ societies , has also been subject to some radical revision in recent years . |
| 22 | The largest user uses at least one of its eight services daily ; this is the department providing an information service to the company at large . |
| 23 | They have been widely used for over a hundred and fifty years . |
| 24 | Today 3,800 are on the market used for over 100 functions . |
| 25 | That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to . |
| 26 | At the other end emerge still useful uranium , for potential reuse in reactors , plutonium , which , according to its quality , can be used for either bombs or as fuel in a fast breeder reactor ( see Chapter Three ) ; and a cocktail of liquid waste products . |
| 27 | These latter are the agglomerated , and subsequently dried , cells of single-celled microorganisms like algae , yeasts , fungi and certain bacteria which can be cultivated on a large industrial-scale basis for the production of protein that can be used for either human or animal consumption . |
| 28 | Unbaptised infants are thought to live in limbo , and their spirits may be summoned or used for either good or evil purposes . |
| 29 | The Mann-Whitney U test was used for pairwise comparisons where the influence of independent variables was identified as significant by the multivariate analysis . |
| 30 | The Mann-Whitney U test was then used for pairwise comparisons . |