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

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1 I removed my hand gently , and used it to lift my glass of tea .
2 She found a glowing ember and used it to close her wounds , then forced herself to stand .
3 The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture — figures , groups and relief work — from Greece and Etruria and used it to decorate their buildings and homes .
4 What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent .
5 She untied the shoelace and did what she could to tame the unruly curls , then took off her red scarf and used it to tie her hair back firmly at the nape of her neck .
6 They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears .
7 They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book .
8 Only drink bottled water — check the seal has n't been broken — and use it to clean your teeth .
9 When you have typed in your work , move the cursor back to the very beginning and use it to guide your eyes by moving it down the screen at the left-hand margin as you check each line .
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