Example sentences of "use [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 2 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 3 | ‘ Damn it , Kathleen , do n't you go using me as a shield . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There are amoebae which gather sandgrains of particular sizes — a process clearly requiring a selection procedure , an instinctive ability to make decisions — using them as a protective outer layer . |
| 8 | Stirling Cooper 's Annalise Kjaer unpicked the body sleeves , using them as a pattern for new ones in black lace . |
| 9 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Detectives believe terror gangs have been renting flats in London and the Midlands using them as a base for operations and then moving on . |
| 14 | 1982:Ch. 3 ) , but there was no possibility of using them as the basis for a reorganised local government structure . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | John trained frantically hard with press-ups to increase his strength and , as Pamela Chrimes described it , ‘ used me as a dumbbell until he could cope ’ . |
| 17 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | probably the men who worked in the cisterns used them as a means of travelling from one side of the cavern to the other . |
| 20 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 21 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 24 | But with the memory of this three-quarter-length in mind , the Daily Sketch critic repeated a remark made fifteen years before : ‘ The self-portrait has the melancholy expression Minton invariably gave his features when he used himself as a model . |
| 25 | From the first , he used himself as an open laboratory . |
| 26 | For , if he used her as a model , she used him as good copy . |
| 27 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 28 | Small animals used her as a shelter , burrowing into her rotting bowels . |
| 29 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 30 | You know our king , when he visited Maubisson , often called on Abbe Gerard and used him as a confessor ? ’ |