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

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1 Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with .
2 The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror .
3 He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting .
4 The idea is that the mind , stimulated by key words or phrases in the text , or by the context , activates a knowledge schema , and uses it to make sense of the discourse .
5 Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt .
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