Example sentences of "use [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 2 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
| 3 | The governor had other officials whose posts entitled them to sit in his executive council , but although they might have looked like potential ministers the legislative assemblies could not use them to control the governor and , as the governor had no automatic right to dismiss his councillors , he could not use them as his ministers either . |
| 4 | You could use them to study the language and techniques of advertising . |
| 5 | The young Labour supporting , Tory-voting car dealer thinks if Labour won power it would use it to support the IRA and gay rights . |
| 6 | Remove lid from casserole when pork is cooked ; grease it lightly with Flora margarine and use it to cook the sage and onion stuffing . |
| 7 | Leave plenty of breathing space between each section of speech so that your audience is not bombarded with too much information at a time , and do n't allow the commentary to describe things which can already be seen on the screen ; instead , use it to complement the pictures and provide additional ( but relevant ) information . |