Example sentences of "was use [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very large number of scats was collected from an artificial salt lick , which the genet was using as a latrine . |
| 2 | In a shadowy corner of the cook tent , Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table . |
| 3 | It was unlooked-for grace that after supper he should send his page to ask Mistress Hussey to be kind enough to come and speak with him in the small chamber the prince was using as a study . |
| 4 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 5 | One such example is the Grade II Pen and Parchment on Bridgefoot in Stratford-upon-Avon , where the barn at the back of the pub was used as a theatre throughout the 18th century . |
| 6 | The underground petrol tank was used as a mass grave for the bodies of those judged to be tainted by Western decadence . |
| 7 | I DO NOT feel , writes PC Michael B. S. Casey , that Mhoira Robertson would have been happy with an obituary ( by Joan Burnie , 3 October ) that was used as a platform to criticise her colleagues ( antiastunomologists — thank you , Anthony Burgess ) and the male species in general : ‘ and Scottish policemen do not like women much at all . ’ |
| 8 | Football was used as a way of encouraging working people to buy or hire televisions in the 1950s with the slogan ‘ When they are talking about the big match on TV will you have to remain silent ? ’ |
| 9 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 10 | Frequently a symbol of salvation , a dolphin talisman would ensure a safe journey on land or at sea , and its image stamped on a coin or token was used as a good luck charm . |
| 11 | The market-place was used as a car-park . |
| 12 | The other was used as a store room , a pathetic fate , since the tall window and high ceiling spoke of better days . |
| 13 | Cubism was used as a vehicle for the laws of simultaneous contrast of colour , derived from Chevreul via Gauguin , Van Gogh , the Symbolists and the Fauves , by Robert and Sonia Delaunay . |
| 14 | Between two people one poncho was used as a groundsheet and the other was strung up and pinned down with home-made pegs . |
| 15 | Instead , the wall was used as a reason for seeking conciliation with the East and accepting it as a fait accompli . |
| 16 | The former ( Tanacetum parthenium ) is called in Gaelic and was used as a cure for migraines , while the latter ( Tanacetum vulgare ) , , ( literally translated ‘ the French weed ’ ) had a rather different use which was recorded by Martin : ‘ To kill worms , the infusion of tansy in whey , or aquavitae , taken fasting , is an ordinary medicine with the islanders ’ . |
| 17 | LEFT : Merrets Mill was used as a cloth mill but was later turned over to the production of flock , shoddy and mill puff , by the Grist family . |
| 18 | Of these , two were corn mills , one eventually became an iron works and the other probably a corn mill , although there may have been a period when it was used as a fulling mill . |
| 19 | There is documentary evidence that a corn mill stood here in 1624 , although by 1645 it was used as a blast furnace . |
| 20 | Nicholson did not appear in the film and was used as a production assistant by Corman ; but it is worth mentioning because it was a significant moment in Hollywood history , inspiring as it did a succession of similar films when other producers noticed that The Wild Angels grossed eight million dollars in no time at all , and had been made on a shoestring budget . |
| 21 | After habituation had occurred , the light was used as a CS signalling the availability of food . |
| 22 | During the Hussite period the church was used as a meat store and so suffered relatively little damage . |
| 23 | Fetherstone was used as a POW camp during the last World War , and the ruins of the camp 's huts still litter parklands by the river . |
| 24 | The only known occasion when a tram depot was used as a television studio with trams as scenery , took place on the evening of 20 September 1962 at Rigby Road Depot , when ABC television recorded its ‘ Sing Along ’ programme using transport staff as the audience . |
| 25 | Thereafter it was used as a running-shed , serving the Promenade , Fleetwood and Marton routes in turn , until in 1945 it became a store for surplus trams . |
| 26 | It was used as a lace factory until 1877 , and is now government property . |
| 27 | But as a political shibboleth it was raised to all-powerful heights and was used as a battering-ram to silence any suggestion by anybody that one might ever spend more on anything even if the aim of spending more immediately was to spend less later . |
| 28 | At one stage the Guernsey was used as a draught animal and later for beef , but its prime role was always as a milk producer . |
| 29 | It was used as a mortuary for victims of the Gordon riots ( see GORDON , LORD GEORGE ) . |
| 30 | It was used as a starting place by 7 regular long-distance coaches , one of them being the ‘ Post ’ which left every morning for Carlisle , Cumberland . |