Example sentences of "used refer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 2 | The sisters-in-law used to refer to themselves as Mary and Elizabeth , but they were never quite sure which was which , although big Bruce Mackenzie was quite sure — ‘ that there was nothing bloody immaculate about Tina 's conception , I can tell you that ! ’ |
| 3 | Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion . |
| 4 | The latter is a term used to refer to former ‘ white ’ areas of pre-independence Zimbabwe and are commercial farmlands , while the Communal Lands are peasant farming areas , of which nearly 27 per cent are subject to extensive or very extensive erosion , which compares with only 1.6 per cent of the General Lands . |
| 5 | At Harvard University in the 1970s , women protested against the use of the generic masculine — that is , the pronoun he and its variants used to refer to sex-indefinite or sex-inclusive referents — in the context of theological discussion . |
| 6 | The former is a descriptive term used to refer to and to denigrate the work of the Young Hegelians who see philosophy as an emancipatory force operating through the criticism of ideas . |
| 7 | Sexism is a term used to refer to a whole range of justifications which supposedly make acceptable the inequalities in income , in job statuses , in promotion chances and in access to power , for example , from which women suffer . |
| 8 | External pressure for change is seen as mediated through the ‘ micro-politics ’ of school life , a term used to refer to the conflicts and struggles between various interest groups within schools . |
| 9 | Wealth thus seems to mean the same as ‘ property ’ , but ‘ property ’ is a term commonly used to refer to anything from Henry Ford II 's car company to the clothes you are wearing . |
| 10 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |
| 11 | ( Except , of course , that the type can not be more general than the lexical item used to refer to it : this apple can not refer to fruit in general . ) |
| 12 | In the case of mouth , if one knew what an animal 's mouth was , and one were to hear , for the first time , a reference to the mouth of a river , I surmise that there would be little difficulty in construing the meaning ; but suppose one were familiar only with mouth used to refer to the mouth of a river , and one heard a reference to the horse 's mouth , it is by no means certain that one 's attention would be directed to the appropriate end of the horse ! |
| 13 | Rather more subtly , J. Harris ( 1984 ) notes that tokens of the hot news perfect ( see further 7.6 ) , used to refer to events in the immediate past , were located in spontaneous , casual discourse rather than in the response speech found in interviews . |
| 14 | This must have given him great satisfaction for he used to refer to himself " as one who has been admitted a member of the great family of the deaf " , and described this family as " my people " . |
| 15 | Also used to refer to a quantity produced above the number of copies ordered . |
| 16 | Also used to refer to a complete set of characters forming a family in a particular design or style . |
| 17 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 18 | Surely the diary is always a personal document ( evident in her cryptic notes used to refer to an illicit relationship ) ; as such , it is also a consciously worked record of selected memories — memories which serve to reinforce Kollwitz ‘ desire to be ‘ numbered among the foremost artists ’ . |
| 19 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 20 | According to the former , Molla Edebali , a native of Karaman , came to the Ottoman lands and there won the complete confidence of Osman so that the latter " used to refer to him problems in the Seriat and to consult with him in matters of government " . |
| 21 | — This is an Algonkian word meaning ‘ eater of flesh ’ which this Indian group used to refer to the hunting peoples who live to the north of them . |
| 22 | It seems to me they used to refer to ‘ employment for life ’ . |
| 23 | Deictic or other definite referring expressions are often used to introduce a referent , and anaphoric pronouns used to refer to the same entity thereafter . |
| 24 | By contrast , it was pointed out that a more striking pattern of cataphora is established early on with the pronominally reduced form " they " used to refer to the soliders . |