Example sentences of "[pron] use [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were over 70 million cars on the roads , many of them used by commuting middle-class Americans who were escaping in ever-increasing numbers from the over-crowded city centres to the more comfortable suburbs . |
| 2 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 3 | It was the automatic and well-oiled gesture of someone used to trading in secrets . |
| 4 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 5 | She pegged it on to his blue jersey with the tiny plastic clothes-pins she used for hanging up her dripping stockings in the bathroom to dry overnight . |
| 6 | Thérèse had the pocket torch she used for reading under the bedclothes . |
| 7 | The woman made a pile of cracked Minton tea plates in the wire in-tray that she used for stacking the washing-up . |
| 8 | " What kind of things are you used to doing in Vienna ? " said Nenna . |
| 9 | ( b ) Which source of information would you use of find the following : |
| 10 | What accessories or trimmings might you use in displaying the following goods : |
| 11 | Counting numbers those are the numbers you use for counting things with like three or six or most people call them the normal numbers . |
| 12 | Raddle you know that you use for marking sheep . |
| 13 | right , what one you use for overtaking ? |
| 14 | what one you use for overtaking ? |
| 15 | The following exercises can help you identify the criteria you use for assessing others , and in turn how you use them on yourself : |
| 16 | Each boy had a inkwell and er a pen , blue-black ink and so on and some of the small books that we used for writing in were kept under the desk . |
| 17 | The set-up for assemble editing is similar to the one used for making copy transfers but with the important qualification that assembly is a stop-start process . |
| 18 | What we mean by this is that the lexical sub-system we use for recognising printed words in reading may be different from the sub-system we use for producing printed words in writing . |
| 19 | What we mean by this is that the lexical sub-system we use for recognising printed words in reading may be different from the sub-system we use for producing printed words in writing . |
| 20 | Whatever actual technique we use for taking the sample the key thing is that everyone should be ‘ on the list ’ in the first place . |
| 21 | She lifted the towel that covered the big bowl we use for making bread . |
| 22 | It is obvious that the gender-dichotomising tendency goes deep , and that our languages are implicated in it ( males and females have different given names , different address titles , different pronouns … ) but it is perhaps less obvious that our metalanguages — the systems we use for talking about language , including grammatical categories — are implicated too . |
| 23 | Seen in historical and anthropological perspective , perhaps the most interesting aspect of the contemporary preoccupation with childrearing is that today we are self-consciously concerned with the possible psychological consequences of the methods which we use in bringing up our children . |
| 24 | Modern construction technology , synthetic compounds and materials we use in constructing the buildings we live in or work in … and the suffusion by those structures of electricity … create electrostress , or ‘ electrical diseases ’ . ’ |
| 25 | Their way of looking at the exterior world , the means they used of recording their ideas about it , even their concept of what a painting was , all these things were different from anything that had gone before them . |
| 26 | The first mouthpiece brought to me was out of the van they used for transporting tramps . |
| 27 | The nose which they used for gathering food enabled them to pluck grass and reeds at their feet and to reach up into the trees above their heads . |
| 28 | Data from this study also show that some people do retain relationships which they use for confiding and support , especially with their mothers , and this is regarded as appropriate , especially for women to get support with concerns that essentially are ‘ women 's business , . |
| 29 | Do they also eat the leaves they use for plugging ? |
| 30 | Our judges treat the techniques they use for interpreting statutes and measuring precedents — even those no one challenges — not simply as tools handed down by the traditions of their ancient craft but as principles they assume can be justified in some deeper political theory , and when they come to doubt this , for what-ever reason , they construct theories that seem to them better . |