Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to [adj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 2 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 3 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 4 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 5 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 6 | On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 7 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 8 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 10 | We may or may not be able to convert them to electrical use . |
| 11 | Like so many Swiss towns which arc left with a legacy of the past , so that many of its buildings arc protected by law , Schaffhausen has quietly converted them to modern use while preserving the exterior . |
| 12 | More often , an executive 's contract entitles him to private use of his car . |
| 13 | But in today 's lean property market , homebuyers could start putting them to good use . |
| 14 | Response has been excellent and we are putting them to good use — please keep them coming ! |
| 15 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 16 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 17 | Wombles are fictitious animals from a TV series noted for their cleanliness , and for cleaning up litter and putting it to good use . |
| 18 | In all cases , remember that the information you find is interesting or valuable only to the extent that you can put it to relevant use in your essay ; facts do not come with fixed , off-the-peg significance . |
| 19 | " See you put it to good use . " |
| 20 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 21 | Secretary reports that he has already put it to good use . |
| 22 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 23 | But Althusser puts it to dramatic use . |