Example sentences of "[verb] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CLAWS tagset used for tagging the LOB corpus is very similar to that of TAGGIT but is somewhat larger with 134 tags to achieve greater delicacy of analysis while preserving compatibility with the Brown corpus ( Johansson et al , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Make used with the to infinitive |
| 3 | Whereas Paneth and Peters used hydrogen gas , Tanberg ‘ made ’ the gas from the water and , what 's more , he used palladium for the cathode so that the hydrogen was attracted naturally to it . |
| 4 | ‘ Preposterous is a word I 've heard used , ’ Scott admits . |
| 5 | Paul stared dreamily at the stables , the horses , and the grooms and coachmen busily rubbing them down ; and compared reason with romance , phenomenology — a word he had not previously heard used — with the behaviourism of the mind as he knew it . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's not a word I 've ever heard used before in this connection . |
| 7 | No , but eh , another word that was I 've heard used , and it was , actually it was quite annoying because the chap used it , used it wrongly , but I did n't know that he 'd used it wrongly at the time . |
| 8 | The standard form 1980 provides a procedure where the client puts forward three specialists whom he would be happy to see used . |
| 9 | At the start of 1961 he began a serious nova-patrol and since then has divided his observing time between novae and comets , keeping late-night vigils which his wife Mary soon became used to . |
| 10 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 11 | When their eyes became used to the gloom they could see the hut was tidily arranged with all manner of traps and tools . |
| 12 | With older people , problems can result from continuing to drink the same amounts they became used to consuming when they were younger , then apparently without effect . |
| 13 | ‘ They sold their Beverly Hills home on Doheney Drive earlier this year and now Britt is pinning her hopes on becoming the new Jackie Collins in order to maintain the lifestyle she became used to after marrying Peter Sellers . |
| 14 | For , as before , the credit instruments soon became used as means of exchange . |
| 15 | One reason for Ho 's elusive quality is that he became used to operating unobtrusively ; so far as possible , invisibly . |
| 16 | But in a little while she became used to me , and was very kind to me . |
| 17 | Chief officers became used to submitting last year 's ‘ base budget ’ corrected for price and salary rises plus an extra X per cent . |
| 18 | By the 1920s other ports had taken much of Gloucester 's corn trade and some of the dock warehouses became used for purposes other than corn storage . |
| 19 | Her main work was centred at a refuge for prostitutes and the women under her charge became used to the sight of her arriving with the latest member of her growing family in her arms . |
| 20 | There were few opportunities for attending concerts but passers-by became used to the familiar sound of Mozart 's " Jupiter " symphony or Handel 's water music floating from Eva 's house in the lunchtime break . |
| 21 | But , as before , they soon became used to his presence in the room . |
| 22 | After a bit she became used to being stared at , even taking it as a compliment . |
| 23 | That was one of the ad-libs to which the production crew gradually became used . |
| 24 | ‘ After literally a few weeks in Bosnia you became used to death . |
| 25 | The pair became used to the waves and hoots from passing motorists , trucks and even train drivers as they journeyed to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 26 | Local councillor Edmund Pearson said : ‘ This is the most crucial decision that has to be made since the land became used for sport . ’ |
| 27 | Gradually my eyes got used to the glare and I was able to make sense of my surroundings . |
| 28 | Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable . |
| 29 | ‘ I just got used to being in her shadow and I still thought there were people who did n't reckon I was better , ’ said Smith . |
| 30 | Instead of him being a mate , I loathed him after that until I got used to the idea . |