Example sentences of "use one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 2 | As they travelled along he used one pair for reading , one pair for looking out the window and the other for glancing around the carriage . |
| 3 | Dr Pierre Schmidt used one granule in 100mls of water and a coffee spoonful as a dose which represented of a granule per 2.5ml dose ( 40 days supply ) . |
| 4 | I just spent a week in Iraq and they used one photo with no other stories playing . |
| 5 | Trains from Bulawayo used one end of this platform and trains from Umtali the other . |
| 6 | At the till the man looked at me and said , ‘ Used one of these before ? ’ |
| 7 | A computer enthusiast in Britain used one last week to run off a copy of a £35 program in a little over four minutes . |
| 8 | Some 35,000 still used one of the 140 Credit Unions operating in Britain in the 1990s as cooperative savings and loan clubs . |
| 9 | W.C. Fields used one phrase which I 've always loved — especially after all the years I 've been married — he said , ‘ Elephants are just like women — nice to look at , but who wants to own one ? ’ |
| 10 | Duncan was n't too concerned because he soon realized that there was little difference in the policeman 's driving whether he used one hand or two . |
| 11 | She used one of Mike 's worn-out expressions , immediately wished she had not . |
| 12 | They had discovered that Graham had drawn three false passports , in the names of Michael Green , Miles Grant and Mark Gordon , and used one of them to fly to Beirut . |
| 13 | In comprehension , children might already be aware that different speakers used different terms for instances of the same category , bird and oiseau say , but they might still be unsure for themselves of the specific conditions under which a speaker used one or other term . |
| 14 | I then used one hook for each ship , and tied all the ropes together at one end . |
| 15 | He used one end to shield his mouth from the smoke and wrapped the other around the fingers of his free hand . |
| 16 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 17 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 18 | He used one shirt sleeve to wipe at his face . |
| 19 | There is hardly a treasure hunter anywhere in the world who has not heard of Charles Garrett , read at least one of his numerous books on the subject , or at one time or another used one of his metal detectors . |
| 20 | The cameraman 's assistant used one of his lenses to focus the sun 's rays on his — the ones in the more personal places . |
| 21 | Macaques were picking up potatoes , taking them to the sea , and washing the sand off the potatoes ; they used one hand to dip the potato into the sea , and the other to brush the sand off . |
| 22 | Walter already incorporated a check in the action of Mozart 's piano in 1783 , while Stein never used one ( illus.11 ) . |
| 23 | I also used one of your photos of the Pembrokeshire coast in our new recruitment leaflet , for which I have added a further £25 . |
| 24 | A chamber was opened and I realised that , like many wise householders , Santerre used one room to store huge vats of water against the very fire we were now fighting . |
| 25 | When two men used one of the stakes as a battering ram , the shutter suddenly split apart — only to reveal an inferno raging inside . |
| 26 | ( Grunte settled down comfortably and glanced at his Daily Mail ; Angela never used one word where three would ‘ suffice ’ . ) |
| 27 | Kent already used one and it improved this , which in turn was used as the model by the NFER . |
| 28 | Jeff , who drove a lead car , explained : ‘ We knew there was a building site there and after a few dollars had changed hands the construction workers used one of their cranes to transfer the three-and-a-halfton generator . ’ |
| 29 | " On at least four occasions , " therefore , " the emperor either personally turned things around or used one of his lieutenants to do so " . |
| 30 | It comprises methods for the partitioning of large IT systems into units which may be designed , constructed and used one by one , so enabling both users and designers to review system requirements at discrete stages of the development . |