Example sentences of "use it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 2 | The problem appeared because Brutus tells Cassius of Portia 's death ( and uses it to explain his bad temper towards Cassius ) . |
| 3 | Elastic materials convert mechanical work into potential energy which is recoverable ; for example an ideal spring , if deformed by a stress , stores the energy and uses it to recover its original shape after removal of the stress . |
| 4 | ( In contrast , the Coloured population of Cape Province regard Afrikaans as their language and have used it to express their radical sentiments . ) |
| 5 | If you accept metaphysics — whether very tentatively , or from a deep sense of inner knowing — how can you use it to transform your everyday life ? |
| 6 | Luton will use it strengthen their central defence . |
| 7 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 8 | He intended to take Papa 's money and use it to keep his long-term mistress and their children ; he laughed at me behind my back … while he pretended to my face that he admired and loved me dearly . |
| 9 | Caroline felt a stir of anger deep within her breast , not at this artless , naïve girl but at Nicolo , Nicolo with his phony morality , his counterfeit Old World manners — his way of finding a woman 's heart and using it to suit his own needs , whether she was eighteen or twenty-four or seventy … |