Example sentences of "use [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used my wealth to fund the building of a crypt at Glastonbury . |
| 2 | Piper O'Rourke used her hand to shield the beam of her torch as she crept along the darkened corridors of Belial Base towards the main airlock . |
| 3 | Joan Halton used her husband to express the emotional greed of which she was so frightened in herself . |
| 4 | In the light of these beliefs , he concluded ( 1970 p 117 ) that Bentham 's Panopticon far from being progressive could justly be characterised as regressive " since he used its design to vaunt the merits of security over those of liberty . |
| 5 | During the war he used his wealth to establish the Sir Frederick Milner Hostels for Deafened Soldiers , and served as Chairman . |
| 6 | Then she remembered he was on call , and used his phone to ring the hospital . |
| 7 | Dreamer used his knife to cut the red snow into blocks . |
| 8 | Sir Bryan used his 7-wood to plant the ball neatly on the green . |
| 9 | Sonia 's deportation was only reversed because the Home Secretary used his discretion to consider the compassionate circumstances of her case . |
| 10 | Paul used his computer to crack the code and continued as before . |
| 11 | He pulled off his mask and used his transceiver to call the bridge . |
| 12 | He used his height to loop the ball well , turned it and bowled agressively . |
| 13 | Gould also used his time to visit the great Australian explorer Charles Sturt at his home at Varroville outside Sydney . |
| 14 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 15 | He used his key to enter the Marylebone Road lodging ; it was late , though not yet midnight . |
| 16 | He then returned to Wessex to raise more men , whereupon there was another unsuccessful assault on the city , which ended with the Scandinavians being pursued into Kent , where Ealdorman Eadric went over to Edmund ; Cnut used his fleet to cross the Thames estuary to Essex , and proceeded from there to ravage Mercia . |
| 17 | The Chancellor also used his statement to close the loophole whereby companies acquired other businesses merely to take advantage of their capital losses for tax purposes . |
| 18 | They are examining the world 's bauxite reserves , investigating the potentialities of Gabon as a market for learning machines , using their influence to secure the release of political prisoners , setting up conferences to standardize labour law and regulations for contraceptive pills . |
| 19 | Rachel even thought of going down to Phoebe 's bed room and using her phone to reassure the outside world , and protect themselves from its invasion . |
| 20 | CND was accused of using its computer to record the political activities of its 60 000 members , to allocate them to local groups and check on their attendance at meetings . |
| 21 | Is this due to changing ideas about how the British system of government should be organised , widely held , or is it simply that the government of the day is using its power to change the system in the pursuit of its own political goals ? |
| 22 | She uses her silk to line the walls and also to bind particles of soil together into a circular lid three-quarters of an inch across . |
| 23 | Having gained weight so rapidly , the abandoned pup then begins to lose it as it uses its blubber to develop the organs of its body . |
| 24 | Wapnick is tall and long-limbed , and he uses his reach to cut the ball off early in flight and to dig it out of the corners . |
| 25 | 2 Maintaining his hold on the attacker , the defender uses his block to pull the attacker onto a rising knee to the stomach . |
| 26 | But while Cavalcanti uses his traitor to question the existing social order , Powell-Pressburger's Thomas Colpepper remains the guardian of the best English traditions . |
| 27 | Yet , given their potential influence , few outstanding sportsmen have used their position to challenge the notion of the legitimacy of sport as a way out and a method of social mobility , and few have pointed out that blacks ' continued domination of sport is more a reflection of limitations in other areas of a society permeated with racism than of blacks ' talent . |
| 28 | These proprietors retain the potential to exercise political power : indeed , they have used their ownership to chart the political direction of their newspapers , but they have stopped well short of using their newspapers to make demands of the political system in the manner of the press barons of the 1930s . |
| 29 | What is important is that , having used their muscle to overthrow the power-sharing executive , the working-class loyalists failed to capitalize by creating an enduring political presence and more traditional loyalist leaders returned to pre-eminence in the struggle against nationalism . |
| 30 | Eventually , institutions will be forced to seek help from the Bank which can then use its power to signal the level of interest rates it would like to see . |