Example sentences of "[be] use it [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
3 | Every other day we 're using it at the moment . |
4 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
5 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
6 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
7 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
8 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |