Example sentences of "he was use the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it was from the delirious welcome accorded to him by his partisans in the Madrid streets that Ferdinand VII formed his conceptions of political power ; in 1814 he was to use the Aranjuez mixture of plebeian loyalty and army support in order to defeat the liberal constitution . |
| 2 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 3 | In fact he was using the Parsons-White string bender , the one where you pushed down the neck of the guitar and that moved a mechanism which raised the B-string by a tone , but I did n't have a clue about that . |
| 4 | The malaise that had troubled him did not go away until , one day , when he was using the chamber-pot upstairs , he noticed an angry sore on his penis . |
| 5 | For the moment , anyway , he was using the old methods on the 7 December dummy . |
| 6 | The first of these , Sea Change , was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1948 and in an interview the author explained the way in which he was using the adventure-story genre : |
| 7 | He was using the treaty not so much to conquer as to acquire legitimately what he regarded as his own by right . |
| 8 | He was using the common coin of the judicial language which is frequently employed to remind the jury of their duty in a serious case and their Lordships do not consider that he overstepped the limits of his obligation to ensure a fair trial . |
| 9 | Dexter was wary : he was using the banter to keep the man at a distance . |
| 10 | They closed on the knife blade , twisted it out of the man 's hand , and then he was using the whole false arm as a metal club slamming down on the upraised arms , jabbing for the face , forcing the man back step by step until the edge of the track was only one more step away . |
| 11 | He was using the cordless phone she and David had bought him last Christmas . |
| 12 | He was using the phone . |
| 13 | To be blunt I was ready to let him know I was aware how he was using the Post and where the money was going . ’ |
| 14 | Secondly , it might arouse the hostility of some of his comrades in arms , on the grounds that he was using the war to further his own political ends . |
| 15 | I suppose my shadow calculated that I would soon come in off the streets , or perhaps he was using the opportunity to go through my baggage . |
| 16 | He was using the middle classes as a reference group ; aspiring to what he believed to be their values of ‘ honour ’ and ‘ duty ’ . |
| 17 | He was using the opportunity to denounce the British as well as the Copts , bracketing them together as Christians combining against true believers . |
| 18 | He was using the past tense . |
| 19 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 20 | Yeah that 's cos he was using the allen key . |
| 21 | Yeah I also noticed the way he was using the . |