Example sentences of "[was/were] use it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 2 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 3 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 4 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 5 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |