Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Drive Lace is of course knitted in a totally different way from Brother 's fine lace ( and you ca n't of course take a Brother fine lace card and use it to knit drive lace ) .
2 Medeva can expand this sales force and use it to develop US sales of its other products .
3 She took out the electric beater and arranged it to beat cream , while Mrs Palichuk watched , fascinated .
4 Sucking the wool and making it damp enhances the lanolin odour , and this keeps the cats contented and fully absorbed in their sucking and chewing .
5 Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with .
6 He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting .
7 They take some of the money they have cut from the training budget and use it to fund employment action .
8 During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC .
9 Ian then set Jo 's hair using the Pin-curl technique and styled it using products from the Schwarzkopf Silhouette professional range .
10 Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects .
11 Tony uses the Midge commuting to site each day and finds it gets waves from admirers .
12 Tell us on a postcard the Latin name of the domesticated Chinese silk moth and send it marked CL /Moth to the address on page 2 by 30 June .
13 ‘ We had to keep our hands on the reins at that point in the race though we were still allowed to carry the whip and use it to prevent horses running out , refusing , or causing accidents .
14 This being so , it is surely better to acknowledge the power of behaviour and use it to improve relationships and enhance communication between people .
15 If the librarian can broaden his focus of user education and let it become information user education and not simply library user education , then there is the possibility for significant change .
16 This further increased its authority and enabled it to keep control over events , at least for the next few months .
17 The USA released US$54,000,000 in aid to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 to assist the country 's economic stabilization and to help it to normalize relations with international financial institu-tions .
18 The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions .
19 Once you 've built a fully computerized factory , you can take out the lights , shut the door and leave it to make engines or vacuum cleaners or whatever , all on its own in the dark .
20 When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses .
21 A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime .
22 The People 's Will revealed their mounting impatience to seize state power and use it to reconstruct peasant society on rational lines from above .
23 Gardeners get round these problems by using alternative means of propagation , all of them known as vegetative methods because of they involve taking some living fragment of a plant and inducing it to develop roots , so producing a new plant identical to the patent or part from which it was taken .
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