Example sentences of "use them [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note how they sometimes walk with their tails up in the air , probably using them as a flag for signalling to others in the group when on the move through undergrowth . |
| 2 | It is difficult to believe that , among the tumult in the cave , either mother or baby would be able to recognise one another 's voices , but bats are famous for their skill in disentangling the echoes of their high-frequency squeaks and using them as a way of navigating . |
| 3 | Detectives believe terror gangs have been renting flats in London and the Midlands using them as a base for operations and then moving on . |
| 4 | For me , too , it seems allied with giving the fundamental grief and despair room and expression , using them as a kind of necessary ballast but not taking so much of them on board that they swamp the vessel . |
| 5 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 6 | Stirling Cooper 's Annalise Kjaer unpicked the body sleeves , using them as a pattern for new ones in black lace . |
| 7 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 8 | 1982:Ch. 3 ) , but there was no possibility of using them as the basis for a reorganised local government structure . |
| 9 | Where this is the case , some teachers experiment with ways of collecting examples of lectures and using them as the basis for the language lesson . |
| 10 | If you have gas or coal fires , and can avoid using them for a while , it would be a useful addition to this list . |
| 11 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 12 | There was a spare one lying around We 'd finished u er stopped using them during the war some time during the war . |
| 13 | As well as discussing experiences and problems in handling microcomputers , the group looked at programs available and experimented with using them in a variety of ways . |
| 14 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 15 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 16 | These have long been associated with the arch-priest of uniformitarianism , Charles Lyell , who used them as the frontispiece of his great proselytising work " Principles of Geology " . |
| 17 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 18 | When the eight- and ten-year-olds did produce causal connectives , they used them in a way appropriate to the deductive mode , by using because to introduce evidence and so to introduce a conclusion . |
| 19 | And this week the Government used them in an attempt to ‘ rehabilitate ’ sex scandal Minister David Mellor . |
| 20 | These pairs are alphabetically listed and linked to the name of any author who used them in the title of the article that he wrote . |
| 21 | As in Between , the binary definitions on which structuralist theory is founded receive parodic treatment which voids them of their original function and uses them for the purpose of telling the tale(s) of the novel . |
| 22 | All Governments use guillotines , but no Government have used them with the frequency of this Administration . |
| 23 | Resignation threats had long been a weapon in de Gaulle 's armoury , but in the past he had used them from a position of strength . |
| 24 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 25 | The conversations should be designed so that the student can use them outside the classroom , and use them is such a way that he/she can control the direction go the conversation . |
| 26 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 27 | Do not use visual aids for the sake of using them and do not use them as a defence to hide behind if you are nervous . |
| 28 | They can let successful managers use them as a kind of bonus or incentive . |
| 29 | Do you use them as a raft , or just throw them to the sharks and sort of watch them sink ? |
| 30 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |