Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not angst-ridden outsiders and they exhibit no signs of the burgeoning self-importance , self-pity and self-aggrandisement we became so used to during John Hughes ' years as Tycoon of Teen . |
| 2 | In term time he spent nearly every weekend with us in London , sleeping in a small room which overlooked the garden , a room which we 'd previously used as a dressing room . |
| 3 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 4 | And we it , we become so used to it , that we we exclude from our minds , we do n't think of it . |
| 5 | During the next two filming trips for Trials of Life we grew more used to the forest , and the chimps became more confident with Mike . |
| 6 | At PFK we 've also used them under gravel and growing media ( where they maintain a lot of their thickness depth despite the pressure ) to encourage good plant rooting . |
| 7 | We 've already used , improved the supporters ' hut to provide shelter for the many people who watch the matches , from which to serve teas . |
| 8 | We 've recently used the front room as a lounge so we have three residents eating in there , three to four eating in one of the other lounges . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've always used the same recipe , ’ he says . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've always used the bore water for our soft drinks , like dandelion and burdock and Irn Brew , ’ said Mr Nigel Smith , Shaw 's managing director . |
| 11 | We 've always used one method of debt collection , and it works , through good times and bad . |
| 12 | ‘ People do write in and offer their services ’ , says Christopher Nell , ‘ but I 'm not aware that we 've actually used any of they so far . |
| 13 | That 's right , now , y , you know very well , some of you again , forgive me if I 'm repeating something we 've talked about before , but we 've actually used this as an example , have n't we ? |
| 14 | ‘ The only reason we did n't was a pragmatic one : we had just used ‘ Is Government Dead ? ’ and could n't use it again . ’ |
| 15 | The stored up sunshine and seasalt in our pores saved us from having another attack of the dreaded ‘ flu that winter , although we had also used very much potassium permanganate in our sinks and drains , as the health authorities asked . |
| 16 | We have even used words like ‘ selfish ’ and ‘ ruthless ’ of genes , knowing full well it is only a figure of speech . |
| 17 | Available UK coal stocks may last another three to four hundred years , North Sea gas used at current levels another 30 years , and we have already used over 40 per cent of North Sea oil . |
| 18 | These suggest that we might use unc = 20 , unc = 10 in ( 2.6.1 ) ; we have already used unc = 0 to obtain |
| 19 | A similar explanation in comparative terms can be given of the notions of ‘ superior ’ and ‘ subordinate ’ criteria which we have already used . |
| 20 | We have already used the vector Xi to describe the position of a point in the material when referred to axes in the undeformed state and considered its transformation to a point xj on deformation . |
| 21 | The first we have already used , namely that , and this is held to apply to all relaxation times in the distribution . |
| 22 | The astonishing image manipulation routines will have you drawing until the early hours , we have already used it to manipulate some of the pictures shown in this section . |
| 23 | ‘ We have already used them in two series at home — against India when they had two umpires from England and against the West Indies when both umpires were Indian . |
| 24 | Unless it was somebody we have already used , and that really boils down to one person in York , and she 's shown no signs of applying , so . |
| 25 | ( Ed 's note : We have successfully used carefully-cut sections of Crystal Clear carbon impregnated filter mat as a substitute for brief periods . ) |
| 26 | These have been judged from what you tell us in the holiday questionnaire and we have also used our own expertise . |
| 27 | We have also used a more leisurely 3-month period for trainees at the beginning of their professional careers . |
| 28 | Language is often compared to a code , and we have also used this analogy in earlier chapters . |
| 29 | We have also used the services of the British Council in both countries and the media , through press releases . |
| 30 | We have also used this refined method to type alleles of the A and B loci of this MBP marker in 122 unrelated patients with clinically definite MS from neurology clinics in Belfast and Coleraine and 106 blood donor controls . |