Example sentences of "have used a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have used a common wood , not exotic , but all the same , there would be more of it to be found , perhaps even in the cabinet he was making of bleached oak . |
| 2 | We could have used a different host mother — using ova from one woman , and allowing another to act as the incubator for the conception — but we preferred to use the donor of the egg cell as the incubator , mainly to avoid any risk of rejection . |
| 3 | Thomas Deloney may have used a little poetic licence to embroider a good yarn . |
| 4 | Had I gone on with this research at the depth which I had in view I would undoubtedly have used a far more informal interview and , having chosen possible points of difference , I would have introduced these in the interviews and let the informants develop the themes themselves . |
| 5 | If she suspected she had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries , she would never have used a pejorative word about the married state , since she had no personal experience of it . ) |
| 6 | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Mimi Rogers fill up the background prettily enough , but director Roger Donaldson could really have used a sharper script |
| 7 | We do know that he could n't have used a beehive . |
| 8 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |
| 9 | For example we could have used a simple computer such as the DEC PDP-8 , or a suitable hypothetical computer such as that presented for didactic purposes by Knuth ( 1968 ) . |
| 10 | Very often a film involving a close-up of hands will have used a special ‘ hand model ’ in place of the actor appearing in the rest of the commercial . |
| 11 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 12 | ‘ You should have used a spirit level . ’ |
| 13 | Oliver said : ‘ A real professional would probably have used a finer cord . |
| 14 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 15 | That is not surprising , because it is inconceivable that we would have used a nuclear weapon in those circumstances , not least because of the negative security assurances which positively precluded their use in such circumstances . |
| 16 | ‘ I would go down to the beach around 7am for an hour and would not have used a proper skin care procedure . |
| 17 | In daylight he could have used a shop window as a mirror to watch the pharmacist 's across the road but lit windows were no use and who stands staring into dark ones ? |
| 18 | " We ourselves would not have used a comma in the example above because we think in that example there is a greater degree of interdependence between the parts of the sentence . |
| 19 | And Mrs Metcalfe , of Ascot View , in Redhall , Darlington , said the burglars must have used a key to get in . |
| 20 | Mrs Metcalfe , of Ascot View , Red Hall , Darlington , said the burglars must have used a key as there was no damage . |
| 21 | Thus , assuming all goes well in this weekend 's national league games , Scotland will have used a mere 16 players during the course of the campaign , Peter Wright 's introduction for the injured Alan Watt proving the only alteration over the four games . |