Example sentences of "used it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document .
2 Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application .
3 The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme .
4 When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him .
5 He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states .
6 Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford .
7 Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery .
8 They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God .
9 Recently I used it to stick a plastic-coated wire rack to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door while I checked the position of the rack with the door closed .
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