Example sentences of "use [pron] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 He used my shoulder for a support while he was firing .
2 Buckingham used his Takamine for a lot of the acoustic parts , but various electrics and other acoustic guitars were also employed .
3 He was a printer who used his skill for the production of a remarkable flow of opinion-forming pamphlets , and a founding father of the United States .
4 We can see how he used his knowledge for the chapters on Hannibal in Gaul of Book 3 of his histories ; but Book 24 in which he summarized his findings is lost .
5 He also used his chronicle for an assault on both the Right and the Left : Wigan Pier was as much a political tract as a travelogue , it was an indictment of the Right and an ultimatum to the Left .
6 Even when he was small , out hunting , and broke his arm , could n't wait until he got back on the horse , used his stock for a sling and rode home . ’
7 The Pope is affirming here that women have work to do not only in the Church , but also in using their gifts for the good of society .
8 One example of how she uses her position for the good of the game , and for others , occurred in October when , suffering from a painful wrist injury and against her doctor 's advice , she played an exhibition , not for personal gain , but to raise money for multiple sclerosis .
9 Sir Hugo Mallinger , to a limited extent , uses his property for the common good , not least in raising Daniel Deronda ; Grandcourt regards his inheritance as the means by which he can indulge his vices .
10 But the dining-room was too spacious : there the sepoys could use their numbers for a devastating bayonet charge .
11 The argument is that provided they do use their power for the benefit of the public rather than for their own personal gain that power is legitimate .
12 Thomas Carlyle had suggested to Elizabeth Gaskell that she should ‘ use her pen for the public good ’ and this both husband and wife tried to do in their way .
13 The court held that the Minister had acted ultra vires in that he had used his power for an improper purpose .
14 That 's it , if Derek said I could use his name for a reference
15 ‘ The only way you will get any results at all , is for me to take your boys in my school , on my horses , two or three times a week , from now through until the summer , and for the boys to use my horses for the competition .
16 Although the children at the La Mane Centre were made to use their powers for the wrong reasons , when it came to using their powers when it mattered , both Carrie and Michael used them in order to kill and destroy .
17 The conditions must be appropriate from a planning point of view : the planning authority are not at liberty to use their powers for an ulterior object , however desirable that object may seem to them to be in the public interest .
18 In Luxembourg the government announced on Feb. 11 that it had authorized the USA to use its airport for the transit of materiel , troops and casualties .
19 The Ministry of Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries is expected to use its supercomputer for the rice genome project at the National Institute of Agrobiological Resources in Tsukuba , but the ministry has yet to reveal its plans .
20 Beetles use their fore-wings for a different purpose altogether .
21 When you use your Card for a transaction to be carried out with or through the agency of another organisation or individual , we reserve the right to supply to that organisation or individual ( as the case may be ) such information as may be appropriate in the circumstances .
22 Patsy went , using his work for the insurance company as a pretext , for in truth he could take no more of the hypocrisy .
23 Is he involved in the coaching end of things using his experience for the young guys ?
24 ‘ I 'll admit anything you like — but why do n't you start using your brains for a change ? ’ he told her roughly .
25 Could we get the same result by using our formula for the vector potential ( eqn(3.17) ) ?
26 As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop .
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