Example sentences of "had been using [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |
| 2 | The mother , who already has twins , had been using a fertility drug . |
| 3 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 4 | Wearing one of his more elaborate uniforms complete with medals , the monarch had been using a soda siphon , which , because of some defect , had backfired and showered him with mineral water . |
| 5 | Over 90 per cent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years . |
| 6 | Gauleiter Forster , on the other hand , had been using the threat of Russian communism and Polish nationalism as the basis for the development of the NSDAP . |
| 7 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 8 | She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened . |
| 9 | He had been using the 1-iron , even though it was a par-5 , but he was afraid of dropping behind . |
| 10 | Mrs Holding said the company had been using the chemical to remove PVC from Ferryhill Leisure Centre . |
| 11 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 12 | His one slip had been using the phrase ‘ whole sorry business ’ . |
| 13 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |