Example sentences of "to use it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police did not prove any intent on the part of the possessor to use it to cause injury . |
| 2 | We have been able to use it to take clients away for short term holiday respite breaks which have proved very successful . |
| 3 | Manufacturing workers were aware of this situation , and at times of dispute with their employers sometimes attempted to use it to gain support from the landed rate-payers who , correctly , believed that , compared with land , the assets of manufacturers were significantly under-assessed . |
| 4 | In 1987 the bank raised £700m in a rights issue , only to use it to make provisions of £1.02bn against sovereign debt , a move that pushed the Midland into its first ever loss . |
| 5 | The accused 's intention had to be considered to determine whether he wished to use it to inflict injury . |
| 6 | This is an undoubted problem , but to use it to preclude registration of a charge of shares in a subsidiary is to make the best the enemy of the better . |
| 7 | Do you need to use it to keep corals ( hard and soft ) , tubeworms , anemones , and the like alive ? |
| 8 | The editor of Les Colonies , however , seized on this statement , and in an editorial in the very last issue his paper was ever to publish , tried to use it to encourage people to stay in St Pierre . |
| 9 | Because he wanted to use it to locate carp and pike he was getting some fiery abuse . |