Example sentences of "used [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also really used me over the T-shirts which got them busted — and persuaded them to change the shop name from Sex to Seditionaries . |
| 2 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 3 | These have long been associated with the arch-priest of uniformitarianism , Charles Lyell , who used them as the frontispiece of his great proselytising work " Principles of Geology " . |
| 4 | James Boswell , for example , often used them for the former , even occasionally , apparently , for the latter ; but never it seems with his wife . |
| 5 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 6 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 7 | These pairs are alphabetically listed and linked to the name of any author who used them in the title of the article that he wrote . |
| 8 | The guerrillas had allegedly smuggled explosives and weapons , including Soviet Katyusha missiles , into Jordan and used them in the attacks . |
| 9 | Yeah , that 's it , if a , but what we had used in that , used them in the er cafetiere down there . |
| 10 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 11 | He trusted him on India , but also used him on the most sensitive domestic issues . |
| 12 | He and Donna used it during the summer , making frequent weekend trips ; Ward himself had written at least two books there . |
| 13 | Few people used it during the day and those who were there when Wickham entered appeared not to notice him . |
| 14 | They used it of the sun , did n't they ? |
| 15 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 16 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 17 | I always used it on the tongue or used dexies and black bombers , y'know , swallowed pills and things . |
| 18 | We used it on the ship , to keep the chickens ' food in . |
| 19 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 20 | Very probably he gave Arp the drawing , who used it with the artist 's consent . |
| 21 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 22 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 23 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 24 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 25 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 26 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 27 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 28 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 29 | This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps . |
| 30 | Meisel helped launch Linda Evangelista on to the road to superstardom , and it was Von Unwerth who captured Claudia Schiffer 's sex kitten quality and used it in the Guess advertising campaign which made the model famous . |