Example sentences of "used [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used my wealth to fund the building of a crypt at Glastonbury . |
| 2 | Piper O'Rourke used her hand to shield the beam of her torch as she crept along the darkened corridors of Belial Base towards the main airlock . |
| 3 | Joan Halton used her husband to express the emotional greed of which she was so frightened in herself . |
| 4 | In the light of these beliefs , he concluded ( 1970 p 117 ) that Bentham 's Panopticon far from being progressive could justly be characterised as regressive " since he used its design to vaunt the merits of security over those of liberty . |
| 5 | During the war he used his wealth to establish the Sir Frederick Milner Hostels for Deafened Soldiers , and served as Chairman . |
| 6 | Then she remembered he was on call , and used his phone to ring the hospital . |
| 7 | Dreamer used his knife to cut the red snow into blocks . |
| 8 | Sir Bryan used his 7-wood to plant the ball neatly on the green . |
| 9 | Sonia 's deportation was only reversed because the Home Secretary used his discretion to consider the compassionate circumstances of her case . |
| 10 | Paul used his computer to crack the code and continued as before . |
| 11 | He pulled off his mask and used his transceiver to call the bridge . |
| 12 | He used his height to loop the ball well , turned it and bowled agressively . |
| 13 | Gould also used his time to visit the great Australian explorer Charles Sturt at his home at Varroville outside Sydney . |
| 14 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 15 | He used his key to enter the Marylebone Road lodging ; it was late , though not yet midnight . |
| 16 | He then returned to Wessex to raise more men , whereupon there was another unsuccessful assault on the city , which ended with the Scandinavians being pursued into Kent , where Ealdorman Eadric went over to Edmund ; Cnut used his fleet to cross the Thames estuary to Essex , and proceeded from there to ravage Mercia . |
| 17 | The Chancellor also used his statement to close the loophole whereby companies acquired other businesses merely to take advantage of their capital losses for tax purposes . |