Example sentences of "they [vb past] be use " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 2 | The aroma that exuded from the chemist shop in those days like er Depends what they 'd been using you see ? |
| 3 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 4 | Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover . |
| 5 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 6 | But these I tried , but they 'd they 'd been used . |
| 7 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 8 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 9 | Miliutin and other committed reformers had hoped to assign peasants the areas they were working already , but in the event they lost about 20 per cent of the land they had been using . |
| 10 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 11 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 12 | But not before they had been used . |
| 13 | Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off . |
| 14 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 15 | Conscious manipulation of tears is very rare , although most women acknowledged how powerful tears can be and could remember the odd occasion on which they had been used as a weapon when all else failed . |