Example sentences of "was use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talk with your husband or wife about how you would react if you found one of your children was using drugs . |
| 2 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 3 | ‘ No tablespoons , for a start , ’ brandishing the dessertspoon he was using . |
| 4 | A further study of Les Sylphides reveals Fokine 's great understanding of the dance rhythms which he felt he had to make visible whenever he was using well-recognised dance forms . |
| 5 | He was using a modern style of movement therefore the rise and fall of his design had far greater dimensions and therefore greater emotional content , His dancers had to parallel the sonorities of Fauré 's solemn ritual of mourning . |
| 6 | He made his design choreographically viable by distinguishing clearly between the two styles he was using . |
| 7 | This is hardly an average reaction to the piece , but the despairing Eliot was using Stravinsky 's music to underpin his own endeavours in The Waste Land . |
| 8 | A passage from Notes Towards the Definition of Culture , relying on ideas from 1913 , hints how the poet was using his anthropological reading when discussing in an anthropological context the difference between imaginative understanding and lived experience . |
| 9 | She was using a boot or shoe . |
| 10 | To make matters worse the angler was using a rig he had bought from his local tackle shop . |
| 11 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 12 | Erika was not too sure about the girl in Pankow , half suspecting that Fräulein Silber was using her as a means of putting pressure on herself . |
| 13 | As MIT was using Sun and Apollo workstations , a user-friendly , mouse-operated graphical display was the obvious choice . |
| 14 | He had beaten the New Zealander Jack Lovelock in the AAA mile — one of five consecutive championship victories — but Lovelock , the more experienced runner , was using the race chiefly to see how and when this little man used that devastating sprint . |
| 15 | At the Marquee , Phil 's father said that Ralph was using us — he just wanted us to play tonight and then it was all over , we 're finished , so why did n't we finish now ? |
| 16 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 17 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 18 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 19 | Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness . |
| 20 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 21 | He was using my car to pick up another girlfriend at the airport . |
| 22 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 23 | He was using his ‘ goon 's ’ voice , the one he put on when he wanted to make himself sound like a harmless imbecile . |
| 24 | He was using you , see , to get information about Mr Bishop , about Madge , about Bella — ‘ |
| 25 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 26 | The old man was using a blowtorch on the garden gate . |
| 27 | By now Smallfry was using her other voice , the one that screeched shrilly and somehow managed to transform her from a beautiful movie-star into something savage and frightening . |
| 28 | Billy Graham was using an adjustable lectern twenty-five years ago ; ( he needed to , since he is six feet four and some of his colleagues are a foot shorter . ) |
| 29 | Anne had met presidents without a tenth of what Skinner was using . |
| 30 | Endill was using both wood and metal in his plane but he did n't dare tell either Mr Welt or Mr Walpit . |