Example sentences of "[noun] used [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I we I think the fire fighters used the white skirt tied the way it wa on my shoe |
| 2 | From the chapel they 've taken the thing that we 're sorriest about , which is the cockfighting chair that Alexander Pope the poet used the two summers that he spent working here in what 's now called Pope 's Tower , translating the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 3 | Remand prisoners at a top security jail used a thin mobile phone to make threatening calls to court witnesses it was revealed yesterday . |
| 4 | Now modal tag is one for seeking agreement whereas an effective tag is one that shows concern to the addressee and according to this study , if you looked and the sheer number of tags , women did use more tags than men , but in actual fact women used a higher proportion of the effective tags than men did . |
| 5 | In the old days we used to have very inefficient coal fires , burning in open grates , which to produce a reasonable heat used a significant amount of fuel . |