Example sentences of "[vb past] use the [det] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 7 | He had used the same reply himself on occasion . |
| 8 | All the while that he had been speaking , he had used the same flat , expressionless tone . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ) . |