Example sentences of "[verb] used it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 2 | I had no idea why I had brought the knife and what I 'd used it for . |
| 3 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 4 | Two of our testers recommend Rimmel 's Hide the Blemish ( £1.09 ) , having used it for years . |
| 5 | Low-growing , almost mat-like , with white daisy flowers in summer , chamomile dates back to at least the time of the ancient Egyptians who are said to have used it for curing ague . |
| 6 | I 've used it for carrying pens — you do n't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live ! |
| 7 | ‘ I 've used it for about three years . |
| 8 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
| 9 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 10 | We we 've used it for things like the street clean |
| 11 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 12 | No one had used it for years . |
| 13 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 14 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 15 | I have used it for children 's jacquard sweaters but if you want to do this then knit the welt from * to * finishing at the left of the bed . |
| 16 | With film this gap is micro seconds though cine photographers have used it for years , flashing whole rolls of film . |
| 17 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 18 | We have used it for scouting exercises . ’ |
| 19 | With film this gap is micro seconds though cine photographers have used it for years , flashing whole rolls of film . |