Example sentences of "[noun prp] was use the " in BNC.

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1 It could only be a matter of time before Wainfleet was using the information for his own purposes .
2 Now , as the party fodder turned up in their glittering clothes , I began to see that Eva was using the evening not as a celebration but as her launch into London .
3 During his absence , Craddock was using the room , as the amount of space available in the department was very limited .
4 In fact Miss Phillips was using the subjunctive mood quite correctly ; compare ‘ I order that you be taken from this court … ’ or ‘ Lawyers have asked that the president not testify … ’ .
5 In the context of British fascism Chesterton was to use the aristocratic upper-class literary conventions to justify the impact of the war on his espousal of fascism .
6 Unlike civilian frogmen , who use compressed air , Crabb was using the naval closed-circuit oxygen diving equipment which leaves no trail of tell-tale bubbles to disclose a diver 's presence .
7 Bhimji was using the ‘ new ’ language of sight to discuss that which was silenced .
8 In speaking of something being necessarily so and not otherwise , Anselm was using the language of his theological speculations , and he did not use the phrase lightly .
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