Example sentences of "used [pers pn] [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 . |