Example sentences of "[pron] use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I personally use a .013-.056 gauge on all the acoustics and all the electrics with the exception of the Firebird , which I use for regular flatpicking in standard Spanish tuning , and that one has much lighter strings on it — an .009 set but with an .011 on the top E. ’ |
| 2 | But I have different slides I use for different things . |
| 3 | He followed this with controversial Fuji commercials which used to social issues of racism and mental handicap to sell camera film . |
| 4 | Men cherished a tremendous sense of nostalgia for the departed glories of the previous temple , and for the Spirit of Yahweh which used in Old Testament days to be displayed in mighty deliverers and inspired prophets . |
| 5 | I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill . |
| 6 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 7 | For example , Katy Simmonds of the Oxford Polytechnic has described a technique she used with 12-year-old children with specific reading difficulties . |
| 8 | She had a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace . |
| 9 | This means that you can use thicker yarns , the ones you use for ordinary single-bed Fair Isle . |
| 10 | Summer gales were rarely of long duration in our experience , and if it blew really hard we used to snug down in the lee of one of the many anchorages and take to the hills for a change . |
| 11 | The sort of criteria which we used for paradigmatic delimitation are of no help here . |
| 12 | Where a firm does provide services to a private customer on written contractual terms ( whether a two-way customer agreement required by the rules or a non-mandatory one used for commercial purposes ) , the agreement must set out in adequate detail the basis on which those services are provided . |
| 13 | A tent similar to one used by murdered Joanne Walter , of Maesteg , Wales and Caroline Clarke , of Surrey , had been sighted near a campervan in a layby . |
| 14 | You must do this very thoroughly , as the picture will not be as tightly secured against the glass if it only has a free-standing photograph frame backing as opposed to the hardboard backing one uses for normal pictures . |
| 15 | But to attempt to isolate them , in practice , can be no more than an illustrative device since the language-game we use of human beings encapsulates the possibility that at any moment Mary can be summoned from such a state , or summon herself , to one of reflection about her reasons for adopting this or that tactic . |
| 16 | Age is no longer the benchmark criterion we use for distinguishing people . |
| 17 | And that 's what we use for electronic circuits . |
| 18 | Many of the rhymes and stories which we use with young children include the use of number names . |
| 19 | Many of the organisational procedures that we use with small groups can easily be adapted , for example giving out cards with relevant information . |
| 20 | Note that the basic approach , with very young children , is in many ways similar to that which we use with other age groups : I , the teacher , do not know . |
| 21 | Thus , ME language states , being so variable , should in principle be suited to the same kind of analysis that we use in present-day social dialectology , and by using variationist methods we should be able to explore at least some of the constraints on variation that might have existed in ME . |
| 22 | Of these fully 650 were spent in caves … the ovewhelming majority of all the material goods we use in daily life today have been developed within the present , 800th lifetime . ’ |
| 23 | There are hundreds and hundreds of words that we use in everyday language to describe them . |
| 24 | We all have a huge wardrobe of actions that we use in different situations . |
| 25 | This is the third recording of Khovanshchina to have appeared in recent years , and all three of them use in various forms the version prepared by Shostakovich on the basis of Pavel Lamm 's edition . |
| 26 | Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books . |
| 27 | People with interest-bearing deposits ( and , with inflation roaring away , no sensible person held cash ) now find most of what they used as ready money locked away . |
| 28 | Like the half-caste kids them they used to left me alone . |
| 29 | It seemed a shame to cancel the celebrations : children in the Borough were allowed free riding on Coronation Day , which they used to full advantage ! |
| 30 | On horseback the long reach of the swordsman is supported by his horse , enabling him to use with great effect a weapon that might be cumbersome on foot . |