Example sentences of "[pers pn] were use [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As the boat you were using for your ridiculous smuggling attempt belongs to me I should have thought it was obvious . ’ |
| 2 | Er and is the sort of standard one that we were using at Aston when these handouts were written erm but you should find that the same sorts of things are discussed in or in Atkinson . |
| 3 | Elizabeth and I corresponded as usual , though there was no immediate likelihood of our meeting ; but we were used to that . |
| 4 | I 've got enough just to manage , but things are n't what they should be and it 's not what we were used to in the old days . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It is up to us to bring the levels of professionalism we were used to into this club . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Being in the country we were used to good fresh stuff . |
| 7 | Of course , in England we were used to er especially at the beginning of the war , we had tea in the afternoon of course , and er when we got there it was dinner at night , with you know , meat and vegetables every night , that sort of thing , so it was quite a surprise . |
| 8 | We were used as miners , yes . |
| 9 | And I was told that he was going to die shortly , and that if I wished , the measures that they were using with the respirator could be removed at my request , because he was in a terminal stage ; it was just a matter of time , and I really felt that I could n't make that decision myself . |
| 10 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 11 | At the time of their first agency contact , the majority reported that they were using between two ‘ bags ’ ( about 10 ) and a gram of heroin ( 60 ) per day , the typical daily quantity reported being 0.25–0.5 gram ( between 20 and 35 ) . |
| 12 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 13 | ‘ They were used to our mad schemes and wearing outrageous clothes for parties was normal in our crowd . |
| 14 | After Handsworth part of the press response was to blame the riot on rivalry between West Indians and Asians , and even after the arguments were criticized by local residents ; and community leaders , they were used to ‘ explain ’ ' what happened . |
| 15 | The operators ignored it as they were used to the odd US aircraft in the area . |
| 16 | They found themselves confined indoors , isolated and without the networks of social support they were used to in Bangladesh . |
| 17 | It made for a somewhat strained atmosphere , but as a company they were used to that . |
| 18 | They were used to heavy work as they had to run the crofts & do all the work themselves when their husbands were away on the boats . |
| 19 | They were used as infantry at Gallipoli , where they landed at Suvla Bay on 20/21 August 1915 , serving with distinction where they took Chocolate Hill and Scimitar Hill with the bayonet ; by 1 November 1915 , they had been reduced to sixty . |
| 20 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 21 | JACOB 'S LADDER ( Guild ) Freaked-out Vietnam vets get together and discover they were used as government guinea pigs during the war . |
| 22 | Final days were spent in revetments on Kalaikunda airfield , 100 miles west of Calcutta , where they were used as decoys with the propellers sawn off and the tails lifted to look like tri-gear machines . |
| 23 | Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated . |
| 24 | When computers first appeared in offices in the late 1970s , they were used as glorified typewriters by secretaries . |
| 25 | Their recovery from graves shows that they were used as personal ornaments , but the discovery of large numbers in the peat bogs , sometimes enclosed in eared flasks , suggests that they were also used as votive offerings , a sign which suggests in itself that amber was regarded as precious enough to serve as conspicuous waste . |
| 26 | As a result they were used as pot-scourers , especially the species E. hyemale , called Dutch rush or scouring rush , and used in Britain and North America for cleaning and polishing metal such as pewter , brass and copper , and for scouring wooden containers and milk-pails . |
| 27 | All my examples run to quite high numbers , which suggests not only that they were a large early printing , but that they were used as ordinary day returns in later days . |
| 28 | Little was done to halt mass pro-Iraqi demonstrations on the West Bank and Gaza Strip ; instead they were used as evidence of Arafat 's close links with Saddam Hussein 's " terrorist " state . |
| 29 | In a measured reconsideration of Blincoe 's account , after a modern historian seeking to defend the early cotton masters sought to discredit it , Professor Musson concluded : There is no doubt whatever that many children were exploited and ill treated in the early textile mills , that they were used as cheap factory labour , that their hours of work were far too long , that accident , ill-health and deformities were common , and that cruel punishments were often inflicted . |
| 30 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |