Example sentences of "he use the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which pair of measurements for ( a ) will allow him to use the least amount of steel edging ? |
| 2 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 3 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 4 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 5 | He used the same technique as when looking for a lost golf ball and took a line on a large house on the Ramsgate front . |
| 6 | He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ . |
| 7 | But then Carver had heard that on other occasions he used the same language about Galvone . |
| 8 | Face it , he used the same joke on everybody . |
| 9 | He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason . |
| 10 | He quickly got a corn broom , went out to the back porch again and brushed his footwear clean ; then he used the same broom to sweep the snow from the kitchen floor into a safe hiding-place under a scatter rug . |
| 11 | Next he uses the same technique but this time on to a sheet of transparent glass placed on trestles , which allows the photographer to film the act through the glass , so that we see the paint falling around the pebbles and wires already placed on the glass . |
| 12 | He uses the same strategy in scene one when he realises that he has failed to infer from McKendrick 's prompting that he should have recognised him . |
| 13 | ‘ And did he use the same formula in his intimate relationships ? ’ |