Example sentences of "[pers pn] use [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used my wealth to fund the building of a crypt at Glastonbury . |
| 2 | She uses her silk to line the walls and also to bind particles of soil together into a circular lid three-quarters of an inch across . |
| 3 | In the light of these beliefs , he concluded ( 1970 p 117 ) that Bentham 's Panopticon far from being progressive could justly be characterised as regressive " since he used its design to vaunt the merits of security over those of liberty . |
| 4 | During the war he used his wealth to establish the Sir Frederick Milner Hostels for Deafened Soldiers , and served as Chairman . |
| 5 | He used his key to enter the Marylebone Road lodging ; it was late , though not yet midnight . |
| 6 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 7 | He used his height to loop the ball well , turned it and bowled agressively . |
| 8 | Having gained weight so rapidly , the abandoned pup then begins to lose it as it uses its blubber to develop the organs of its body . |
| 9 | Wapnick is tall and long-limbed , and he uses his reach to cut the ball off early in flight and to dig it out of the corners . |