Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll spend the rest of my life knowing that I was willingly used by a man who did n't love me . |
| 2 | She was then used on the Trent & Mersey Canal as a crane barge for maintenance of the waterway . |
| 3 | Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame . |
| 4 | They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern , while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute . |
| 5 | They were also , since they were increasingly used by a small but important educated public , a link between diplomacy and the wider social world in which it operated . |
| 6 | Throughout the War they retained their cream livery , when the rest of the fleet was green , and when the War ended they were again used on the Promenade as specials . |
| 7 | As they lie smoothly on top of one another , they were also used for the principal retaining walk around the lawn . |
| 8 | They were also used for timing the length of sailors ’ watches . |
| 9 | For a half a century from the 1840s , Shorthorn bulls from Britain and Dutch Black Pied bulls were used to improve local red and red-pied cattle in central and southern Belgium ; they were also used on the black-and-white Charleroi ( which also had some Charolais influence later ) . |
| 10 | Their recovery from graves shows that they were used as personal ornaments , but the discovery of large numbers in the peat bogs , sometimes enclosed in eared flasks , suggests that they were also used as votive offerings , a sign which suggests in itself that amber was regarded as precious enough to serve as conspicuous waste . |
| 11 | They were also used in hydraulic systems because they did not react with the materials used in the pipes and pistons . |
| 12 | They were spoken in those parts of the country that had been massively subject to Scandinavian settlement in the late OE period , and they were subsequently used in areas where the elite language became Norman French . |
| 13 | The galleries of Cumbria , so frequently referred to as ‘ Spinning Galleries ’ , could better be called ‘ Wool Galleries ’ , for they were mainly used for fleece , wool , yarn and cloth in many stages of storing , preparation and drying . |
| 14 | They are like small chambers ; they were once used by pirates , only His Grace , the late King , cleared them out with fire , sword , and gallows . |
| 15 | There have been natural caverns or fissures discovered under Stamford , but there is no evidence to suggest they were ever used by man . |
| 16 | They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men . |
| 17 | There is no evidence that pearls were sought or used as precious substances before the emergence of civilized states , and when pearls were adopted they were commonly used in jewellery together with precious stones . |
| 18 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 19 | They were often used for one or another of the Sheikh families , or for some accident victim who could not get to a specialist hospital in any other way . |
| 20 | From time to time he may be able to supplement his hoard with pieces of fine scribal work culled from early printed books , where they were often used by printers to serve the menial office of strengthening hinges or even acting as a paste-down . |
| 21 | They were chiefly used by women but also by doctors and clergymen who had to go out in all weathers . |
| 22 | If all the chambers were as long as this , or if they were only used by people who had gone down deep into them , then his search would take months . |
| 23 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 24 | The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket , which was what it was principally used for . |
| 25 | In January it was successfully used in an attack on Clogher RUC station , which caused extensive damage . |
| 26 | It was frequently used by statesmen — Palmerston , Gladstone — to provide a moral gloss to a foreign policy that actually owed little to principle and much to the pragmatic calculus of the balance of power . |
| 27 | The advent of the boiled bait , not too long before the hair-rig , married very well to this new technique , for it later became apparent that the success of the hair-rig owed a lot to the fact that it was generally used with boilies . |
| 28 | It is likely that it was originally for wool drying , although there is a local tradition that it was also used for the drying of teazles , imported from Somerset , hence its local name of the Teazel Tower . |
| 29 | No doubt it was also used for pasture , either in rotation with arable or when areas were abandoned from arable cultivation . |
| 30 | A spokesman for the centre said : ‘ We were extremely disappointed to lose the karaoke machine because it was also used for our bingo calling . ’ |