Example sentences of "use [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like — if you said to an adman : use some real people , use me or my friends in your ad , they would say : it wo n't sell . |
| 2 | If I give a hitcher a lift I expect social interaction and ca n't abide the ones that use me like a bus service , mute to the point of rudeness . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you use me , Harriet , ’ he had said once , mock-serious . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's no use me doing nothing now and wondering why we 've got a problem in March . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not coming any more for yer ter use me . |
| 6 | Or maybe use me as the basis for tissue culture , body-bank , whatever . ’ |
| 7 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 8 | You use me when it suits you , you get me to fix your dirty work — ‘ |
| 9 | I am not going to let anyone use me . |
| 10 | I 'm just telling you what I do , and why people use me . |
| 11 | ‘ It is no use me spitting out my dummy , ’ he said , borrowing a a popular Australian phrase . |
| 12 | It was no use me dying . ’ |
| 13 | Use them to the full to guarantee the effective use of your computer system by ensuring staff are aware of its potential . |
| 14 | Lovers use them as secrets to reveal . |
| 15 | For example , you can put down hoops or ball cans in certain areas of the court and use them as targets . |
| 16 | You can buy stamps , usually worth £1.00 from local showrooms and use them to pay all or part of the quarterly bill . |
| 17 | The pointes The use of pointes as a delicate finishing touch is not always exploited by today 's choreographers , who often use them to display their dancers ' ability to ‘ get up and stay there ’ — come what may ! |
| 18 | some actors today , notably Sir John Gielgud , use them when playing in classical drama and some eighty are still part of a dancer 's means of telling a story in classical style . |
| 19 | It may well be there is nothing wrong with hops in this form except that I find that brewers who use them , such as Whitbread and Charles Wells , produce beers with a bitterness that is a shade too harsh for my liking . |
| 20 | In some respects , you have to determine what your strong characteristics are and then use them . |
| 21 | ‘ I take all the bad things — and the good — and turn them round and use them in my singing , ’ she says . |
| 22 | Parents please help yourselves , and use them to help your children — take a copy home with you if you wish . |
| 23 | Parents please help yourselves , and use them to help your children — take a copy home with you if you wish . |
| 24 | Parents please help yourselves , and use them to help your children — take a copy home with you if you wish . |
| 25 | Parents please help yourselves , and use them to help your children — take a copy home with you if you wish . |
| 26 | Trucks , buses and most taxis use them , and 40 per cent of vehicle fuel sold in the UK last year was diesel . |
| 27 | They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking . |
| 28 | These are delicious by themselves , but if you use them for Devils on Horseback ( see p112 ) your cocktail party will surely be an enormous success . |
| 29 | Use them in egg mayonnaise , omelettes or simply to top scrambled eggs . |
| 30 | When people must pay for services , regardless of whether they use them or not , they are paying a tax , period . |