Example sentences of "have used " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 2 | Money you could have used to make your future , and that of all your employees , more secure and more prosperous . |
| 3 | All are themes Turner might have used and Tabner is clearly conscious of his example . |
| 4 | If he had had fibreglass Corinthian columns at his disposal , he would have used them . |
| 5 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |
| 6 | The loyal few who paid full price at the turnstiles deserved better , but the real losers were Sheffield Eagles , who wanted a tour game and would have used the opportunity much more imaginatively . |
| 7 | Now she felt that she could have used Phoebe in her struggle with Fenna . |
| 8 | This meant that she could have used the Convention 's rulings on child abduction to get Eva back . |
| 9 | We could have used more than a couple of training sessions , though , to prepare to meet a team of the All Blacks ’ calibre . ’ |
| 10 | He had been batting steadily and was well set , and since England , 328 ahead with three wickets left , were apparently in control they should have used all the time available to build up their score . |
| 11 | Well , he did n't mind that except that it wasted time , time he could have used making his trap . |
| 12 | Being a man , he would have used the condoms and quietly dropped the other things through some charity shop 's letter box . |
| 13 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 14 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 15 | The difficulties lie , rather , in the fundamental implausibility that a man involved in a dispute would not have used every claim at his disposal to protect himself and his property . |
| 16 | Although they may not have used the above terminology , their written statements confirm the evidence in their work . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 19 | It might also have included woodland in which , again , the peasants could not graze their animals , but which the manorial lord would have used exclusively for his own purposes , including hunting . |
| 20 | If you have already extended your house in the past , you may have used up part or all of the allowance , and you will have to apply for planning permission for the garage . |
| 21 | The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Thomas Deloney may have used a little poetic licence to embroider a good yarn . |
| 24 | It was cheaply designed , the kind that villagers would have used in their homes . |
| 25 | If we had wanted that we would have used medical questionnaires to evaluate physical and mental health , listed the facilities and defects in each house , and asked for income and expenditure budgets . |
| 26 | There is a theory that spindle spinners would have used the galleries , using their drop spindles over the rails to obtain a long thread . |
| 27 | I noticed he was carrying something wrapped in a cloth and could only have used one hand for balance . |
| 28 | Once it has been allowed that the procedure used in these various studies of flavour pre-exposure might have used insensitive measures of conditioning , it becomes inappropriate to place much reliance on them as demonstrating a dissociation of habituation and latent inhibition . |
| 29 | One thing Boy never said , the line of Newman 's he would never have used , was do n't call me Boy . |
| 30 | When her father was being stern with her , and she hid her face from the camera in the pillow on the morning before her wedding , he thought of all the arguments that he would have used to persuade her to get up and face the situation . |