Example sentences of "[verb] to use [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone has left us a private house in Colchester in their will and we 've decided to use it as a training house . |
| 3 | Endorsement of the Ericsson approach has come from the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , which says that it plans to use it as the basis for a pilot network . |
| 4 | They decided to employ a similar philosophy to German Bands like Can and Faust , refusing to use them as a mere influence , more an entire concept . |
| 5 | He told the jury yesterday that he had never threatened her with his truncheon , but he had offered to use it as a sexual aid . |
| 6 | After spending a few months gauging public reaction , West Mercia Police intend to use him as a kerbside deterrent against speeding . |
| 7 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 8 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 9 | ‘ Had you and Mrs Marshall planned to use it as a weekend retreat , perhaps ? |
| 10 | Power-hungry people would want to use it as a weapon — which it could very successfully be utilised as — or else as a way of controlling others en masse . |
| 11 | We staggered out and began to use it as a battering ram against the locked door . |
| 12 | These will be available for members wishing to use them as part of their revision programme for the September examinations . |
| 13 | Updata is aimed primarily at users in the financial world ranging from business executives and private investors at home , to large trading organisations wishing to use it as a back up system . |
| 14 | And what this section will do is stand back from the particularity of today ( though continuing to use it as an example ) and ask why economies develop such geographical variation and why their geographies are subject to change . |
| 15 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 16 | I decided to use it as the chance to turn my life around . |
| 17 | Some of the students started to use him as their confessor . |
| 18 | The Senate is notorious for closing ranks against any young politicians who try to use it as a springboard for something grander . |
| 19 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 20 | No , not as raw data but yo you then go to use it as intelligence , I E |
| 21 | Record cards should be provided by management and salespeople encouraged to use them as part of the sales plan before each visit . |
| 22 | Vinelott J noted that the issue was not the admissibility of the transcript ( see s 433 of the Insolvency Act 1986 which makes admissible in evidence statements made under a requirement imposed by the 1986 Act ) but whether the SFO should be allowed to use it as evidence otherwise than in accordance with s 2(8) of the 1987 Act . |
| 23 | In that case he said : As I understand it , the essence of this branch of law , whatever the origin of it may be , is that a person who has obtained information in confidence is not allowed to use it as a springboard for activities detrimental to the person who made the confidential communication , and springboard it remains even when all the features have been published or can be ascertained by actual inspection by any members of the public . |
| 24 | The Ostrogothic king Theodoric cultivated contacts with them , drawing them into his web of marriage alliances , and trying to use them as a check on Clovis in 507 . |
| 25 | Atrimonides was grabbing wildly at her , desperately flailing his hands and feet , and Cheryl realized he was trying to use her as a reaction mass to slow his own fall . |
| 26 | The debate over the classification of the duck-billed platypus — which lays eggs but also gives milk — arose out of this issue , with the serialists trying to use it as a link between the reptiles and the mammals . |
| 27 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 28 | The Mayor of the Hu Xi district offered almost US$20,000 to the fishermen for the purchase of 17 dolphins , hoping to use them as a tourist attraction . |
| 29 | He had ordered the strengthening of Dunbar Castle , thirty miles north of Berwick ; why , if not because he intended to use it as his base against Lothian and this Edinburgh ? |
| 30 | I say ‘ modified ’ because you have to use them as attacks in themselves . |