Example sentences of "[vb past] use the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck . |
| 2 | He 'd used the same technique sometimes as a prelude to complaining about his marriage . |
| 3 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 4 | The magnitude of the enteroglucagon response elicited by deoxycholate was similar to that reported for a test breakfast , measured using the same assay system . |
| 5 | A similar register of all villages and other groups of buildings should be compiled and examined using the same criteria , with the same objective . |
| 6 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 7 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 8 | This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena . |
| 9 | And he was delighted to find that these forerunners of pop journalism had used the same skills as those on which he prided himself to stamp events into the nation 's consciousness . |
| 10 | The Rampton Report ( 1981 ) had used the same processes of data collection and presentation , comparing only overarching ethnic categories such as West Indian , Asian and White with no discussion of sex differences within each . |
| 11 | It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction . |
| 12 | He had used the same reply himself on occasion . |
| 13 | All the while that he had been speaking , he had used the same flat , expressionless tone . |
| 14 | Even if he had used the same words , his non verbal communication in the two situations would have conveyed a very different attitude . |
| 15 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 16 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |