Example sentences of "used a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , having used a number of different twin stem units I 've found the single wire stem much more versatile , although sometimes a little harder to remove from stubborn placements . |
| 2 | The company has used a modified version of the design in its proposal for the European Teraflop initiative . |
| 3 | Richard Dennick , 22 , who was convicted at Chester Crown Court in 1983 , is thought to have used a blanket rope to escape from Lewes prison , East Sussex . |
| 4 | It was accepted that the British troops had used a substantial amount of violence and brutality to enforce the hand-over . |
| 5 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 6 | He has used a fast government car to shake off at least one photographer , but there is a more prosaic explanation for Mr Lamont 's perambulations around Blackpool — his civil servants could not get through the security around the Imperial . |
| 7 | To relieve the periodic overload at Sussexdown , the Association has used a contract scheme for nursing beds with Private Patients Plan Beaumont Nursing Homes . |
| 8 | Used a lot in French cooking , chervil has a delicate , sweet flavour and blends perfectly with fish , chicken , eggs , cheese and many fresh vegetable dishes . |
| 9 | Although the official world championship did not start until 1950 , Hamilton has wisely used a broader brush with excellent effect to put the race in an accurate historical perspective . |
| 10 | He used to just sit there with a 12 string guitar and often used a tape recorder with backing tracks , and then put on a harmony live or used a stylophone . |
| 11 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 12 | I wanted to ask if she had died peacefully , whether they had used a syringe driver , if there 'd been anyone to comfort her . |
| 13 | The other word , kairos , is a word that is used a great deal to describe God 's breaking into our time and history to bring his salvation . |
| 14 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 15 | But she 's never used a phrase like that before . |
| 16 | Fortunately the rumour began to circulate that Disraeli had used a WP and suddenly computers were ‘ in ’ . |
| 17 | Channell 's organization also used a code name for the weapons account ; it was ‘ toys ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Bath had used a variation of this move to score their first try . |
| 20 | The Labour leader and his closest advisers had decamped to a country hotel run by the local council while his own terraced house in Blackwood was being used a committee rooms for the duration of the campaign . |
| 21 | Officials said unidentified saboteurs also used a dynamite-packed petrol tanker to blow up a bridge near the town of Mostar , cutting traffic on the main highway connecting Sarajevo to the Adriatic coast . |
| 22 | Combining therapy and politics in an interesting way that still has to reach this country is the work of Bjorn Magner ( 1972 ) who , in Sweden , has used a kind of political psychodrama , not in order to point out weakness in our society but to refine each individual 's capacity for political awareness . |
| 23 | Since the teacher has already used a stick as a sign of Beowulf 's authority he decides to give this additional prominence by making it the object to be retrieved from under the chair . |
| 24 | This is how one school has used a formula-based system as a management response to a resource distribution problem . |
| 25 | But Baccy never used a curse word , nor did he ever take the briar pipe out of his mouth despite having abandoned the tobacco habit on joining the church at the age of eighteen . |
| 26 | The Irishman had used a gun but a fountain pen could be equally dangerous . |
| 27 | The Club 's President revealed along the way that he had played his first golf at St Andrew 's in 1886 , aged 3½ , when he had used a wooden putter . |
| 28 | She would take a few drops directly into the mouth using the pipette whereas previously she had used a teaspoon direct from the 100ml bottle . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Thomas Deloney may have used a little poetic licence to embroider a good yarn . |