Example sentences of "men who used " in BNC.

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1 THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high .
2 Apart from finding globules of mercury in people 's shoes , a contemporary commentator , and opponent of this form of treatment , describes two men who used the same tavern regularly and both having supped from their little bottles of mercury would smoke a pipe and down some wine .
3 Men who used carts knew something about the advantage of a little moisture for tightening wheels .
4 He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them .
5 In their sample , on the contrary , it was men who used more .
6 Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger .
7 Even though I was still an innocent youth , Old Shallot had met the most fierce and sinister of warlocks , magicians and witches : men who used dark powers to unhinge the mind of their opponents .
8 TWO men who used an imitation firearm to carry out a robbery were sent to a young offenders centre at Belfast Crown Court yesterday .
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