Example sentences of "she [modal v] use [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 2 | That she could use her tenderness as skill |
| 3 | Violette asked Katherine if she could use her room to freshen up a little . |
| 4 | Perhaps she could use his skills for her own advantage . |
| 5 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
| 6 | and I put twenty thousand pounds to give , I , I mean I took it that she would use her allowance , er I took it erm as twenty thousand pounds to give his wife as high a possible gross earning |
| 7 | And he got out of there fast , before she could see it , some masculine fear in him that if she knew how he felt she would use his vulnerability against him . |