Example sentences of "and use [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Typically a dybbuk was not satisfied with life beyond the grave and would return to take possession of another person , changing their character and using them to wreak havoc . |
2 | Taking funds out of deposit accounts and using them to repay mortgages will be particularly attractive for high earners who no longer receive mortgage interest relief at the upper rate — thanks to Mr Lamont — and who might suffer up to 50 p.c. deductions on savings ' earnings . |
3 | And there would seem to be an easy , gradual continuum between using the voice to make echoes and using it to mimic echoes . |
4 | The idea of recovering waste heat from air or water , and using it to heat buildings cheaply , is very attractive . |
5 | Other ideas include mixing straw with sewage to make compost , which is being tried out at sewage works near Oxford and using it to make paper , which it was widely used for until the 40s . |
6 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
7 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
8 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
9 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
10 | The idea is that the mind , stimulated by key words or phrases in the text , or by the context , activates a knowledge schema , and uses it to make sense of the discourse . |
11 | And they still drag out those photographs I took of the splashes and use them to illustrate lectures on bloodstains . |
12 | I think could chop them up and use them to make road surfaces with . |
13 | was these natives and the chief native ge guy goes in tomorrow , tomorrow morning we 're gon na skin you and use you to make canoes but you have one last wish tonight . |
14 | They take some of the money they have cut from the training budget and use it to fund employment action . |
15 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
16 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
17 | A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime . |
18 | This being so , it is surely better to acknowledge the power of behaviour and use it to improve relationships and enhance communication between people . |
19 | ‘ We had to keep our hands on the reins at that point in the race though we were still allowed to carry the whip and use it to prevent horses running out , refusing , or causing accidents . |
20 | During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC . |
21 | Drive Lace is of course knitted in a totally different way from Brother 's fine lace ( and you ca n't of course take a Brother fine lace card and use it to knit drive lace ) . |
22 | The People 's Will revealed their mounting impatience to seize state power and use it to reconstruct peasant society on rational lines from above . |
23 | Medeva can expand this sales force and use it to develop US sales of its other products . |