Example sentences of "used [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have used me in the past . |
| 2 | All Governments use guillotines , but no Government have used them with the frequency of this Administration . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 5 | The first reference is a friendly one : ‘ Lord Goodman had always been very generous with his legal advice to Labour MPs , including me , and Harold Wilson had used him for a number of assignments , including an exploratory visit with Sir Max Aitken to Ian Smith in August 1968 on the possibilities of a settlement . |
| 6 | We have n't used him in a while . ’ |
| 7 | We 've used him in the past on a few projects . |
| 8 | For all his fine talk he had used her like a whore . |
| 9 | He 'd used it about a lot of his friends behind their backs , particularly if they were homosexuals or had other sexual tastes he considered unusual . |
| 10 | I have also used it under the skin of a loin of pork and stuffed it into tunnels made with a sharpening steel through legs of lamb . |
| 11 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 12 | I 've never used it as a technique like Steve Vai — or there 's a British guitarist , Jan Cyrka , who does that . |
| 13 | The ancient nomes had used it as a kind of lift , but it did n't have wires — it went up and down by some force as mysterious as auntie 's gravy or whatever it was . |
| 14 | He had used it as a conveyance . |
| 15 | Had All Souls been lost , the Church authorities would undoubtedly have used it as a precedent for arguing that there were some churches which , however important , were simply too difficult or expensive to save . |
| 16 | My flatmate moved out a month ago , and in that month I 've used it as an excuse to binge . |
| 17 | But nearly half of those who had used it in the past , though not using it currently , rated it as never good . |
| 18 | Many schools have used continuous assessment of course-work as part of the work leading to GCE O level ( Mode 3 ) ; and still more have used it in the CSE examinations . |
| 19 | You have n't used us for a while . |