Example sentences of "used [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 2 | The remedies used to treat sick people are actually capable of producing similar symptoms and diseases to those present in the patient needing that remedy . |
| 3 | One such is biliary colic induced or aggravated by morphine used to treat biliary colic . |
| 4 | The case centres around a Mr X , accused with several others of setting up a bogus merchant bank used to conduct fraudulent transactions . |
| 5 | There are subdivisions within the Brahmin caste and Chari belonged to one of them : her dead husband used to conduct religious ceremonies for the Harijans of the area . |
| 6 | A final , arithmetical method used to estimate correct weight is this . |
| 7 | I used to sit alone in my room and listen to the sounds of the wind outside the house . |
| 8 | The garden used to go untended , the dog was unwalked ; Sunday was cricket day . |
| 9 | He used to go regular with his ma when he was a nipper . |
| 10 | What , oh we used to go regular up on a Sunday did n't we to ? |
| 11 | I often used to go fell walking but can not ever remember seeing the deep ruts caused by walkers that were all around , in some cases up to 12–15in deep . |
| 12 | Dave Brock used to go onstage in a lab-coat , so me and me mates used to finish school and still wear our lab-coats everywhere . |
| 13 | Tom used to go white and silent at first , and then end up shouting back in sheer self-defence . ’ |
| 14 | I know , cockroach 's insect , I do n't use those cos they say colours make children go hyperactive , used to stop using them when we had Geoffrey , cos he always used to go berserk |
| 15 | I used to go mad . |
| 16 | He says me dad al me dad was always speeding he , he used to go mad ! |
| 17 | The men used to go paralytic and put windows in . |
| 18 | Now you you told me er er before about this er the unemployed used to gather weekly in in in the in the public hall , what |
| 19 | The kitchen table was covered with homework , dictionaries , ring notebooks and ‘ All you Need to Know about the Russian Revolution ’ pulled out of the huge pieces of luggage Henrietta took every day to school , books used to erect tottering towers wherever the family was next about to eat . |
| 20 | Fiona Richmond , who used to perform sexual test drives for men for one of Paul Raymond 's raunchy magazines , shared a bath with the Palace players . |
| 21 | Nearly all of the rods , floats and rod rests ( idle backs ) were home made and I used to attend weekly tackle-making classes in the attic of the Royal Oak Hotel at the bottom of Cemetery Road in Sheffield . |
| 22 | It was switched off in 1989 , and now the hundred foot long pipes used to carry hot carbon dioxide to run the giant turbines producing electricity are coming down . |
| 23 | The hundred ton gas ducts used to carry pressurized carbon dioxide from the reactors to drive the giant turbines which produced the electricity for half of Gloucestershire . |
| 24 | The steam produced by this process is in turn used to drive large turbines which generate electricity in exactly the same way as in any other conventional power station . |
| 25 | In an age when even the most liberal of Mughal Emperors used to demolish Hindu temples , this was both a brave and novel work ; but some considered Dara 's views not just unusual but actually heretical . |
| 26 | Some of them used to wear normal clothes if they were going home afterwards , some would come in uniform but without their keys . |
| 27 | He used to wear yellow ties and trendily-cut suits in eye-catching colours . |
| 28 | When I left Uganda , people used to wear tight pyamas and Kamiz , but these too they did not approve of . |
| 29 | ‘ When I came to Easington to buy the shop I used to wear tinted glasses , ’ says Italo . |
| 30 | Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles . |