Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] use [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 2 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 3 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 4 | All the right components had been used for a power casting rig , 60 lb main trace line , heavy duty swivels along with good links . |
| 5 | It provoked accusations from the Azerbaijani side that the talks had been used as a cover for an intensification of military action . |
| 6 | This incident was some time after the Red Sand Towers had been used as a pirate radio station ( Radio 390 ) . |
| 7 | I found that my house had been used as a barracks , everything we possessed has been destroyed . |
| 8 | When the Hewers bought Vine House it had been used as a dormitory for an air Force course int he village during the war . |
| 9 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 10 | The school grounds had been used as a car park during yesterday 's race meeting . |
| 11 | A community leader had to be removed from the area under police escort when it was alleged that she had been used as a police informer . |
| 12 | DISGRACED sprinter Jason Livingston last night insisted he had been used as a scapegoat by British athletics officials . |
| 13 | It affected his mind , or so it was said ; he became paranoid and was obsessed with the thought that he had been used as a scapegoat . |
| 14 | Before rebuilding , an archaeological excavation was carried out by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust which established by radio-carbon dating that the site had been used as a burial ground for about one thousand years before Melangell 's time . |
| 15 | It was the same in the Loire , at the Chateau de Chavigny , where the famous mirrored salon , built for the seventh baron de Chavigny , had been used as a shooting-gallery . |
| 16 | In 1935 Uruguay acceded to Brazilian pressure to break links with Moscow because of allegations , apparently not unfounded , that the Soviet trading office in Montevideo had been used as a conduit for funds to the Brazilian insurgents . |
| 17 | well this , no , fifty one , er this was the last house to be completed on this estate because it had been used as a paint store and we were the very last people |
| 18 | These libraries had been used as a means to circumvent a restrictive loan policy applied in the main library , which clearly lacked support from the scientific or library staff within the departments . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Her head felt muzzy ; her tongue had been used as a mop for an unspeakable floor ; a headache was hovering , waiting to pounce ; this room was n't hers and neither was the shirt she was wearing . |
| 21 | This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last . |