Example sentences of "use it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few people used it during the day and those who were there when Wickham entered appeared not to notice him . |
| 2 | He and Donna used it during the summer , making frequent weekend trips ; Ward himself had written at least two books there . |
| 3 | They used it of the sun , did n't they ? |
| 4 | We used it on the ship , to keep the chickens ' food in . |
| 5 | I always used it on the tongue or used dexies and black bombers , y'know , swallowed pills and things . |
| 6 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 7 | More than half of us used it with a video-recorder , chiefly for films and soap operas taped from broadcasts . |
| 8 | Very probably he gave Arp the drawing , who used it with the artist 's consent . |
| 9 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 10 | Melcarek and Brown then used it for a study of the effects of chill stress on both prompt and delayed fluorescence . |
| 11 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 12 | It was a bird that would appeal to popular sentiment ; indeed , Gould advocated its adoption as Australia 's national bird , and later used it as a motif on the covers of his Birds of Australia series , showing the male lyre-bird with the beautiful lyre-shaped plumes of its tail raised in courtship . |
| 13 | It was the site of a Roman estate in the first-third centuries , the Saxons established farm clusters , two of its settlements were mentioned in Domesday , and King John used it as a hunting base ( and purchased his wines there ) . |
| 14 | He named the coccus Micrococcus lysodeikticus and used it as a test for identifying the destructive or lysing agent . |
| 15 | Owen found a hole in the wall , used it as a stepping place and swung his leg over the top . |
| 16 | In the early 1900s possession passed from the Walsingham family to the Gunters who used it as a country home . |
| 17 | The early Church used it as a call to faithfulness and obedience in the interim before the Second Coming of Jesus and the establishing of the kingdom of Heaven over all the earth . |
| 18 | The Camisards took refuge here from the Catholic armies … and the Maquis used it as a hiding place for their weapons during the Occupation . ’ |
| 19 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 20 | Jews , on the other hand , used it as a way of referring to God . |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’ |
| 22 | In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search . |
| 23 | WordStar used it as a base from which to build WordStar for Windows , a process that has continued with this latest release , which adds Windows 3.1 compliance amongst other things . |
| 24 | The creative team took this new insight and used it as a spring-board to create a very successful campaign based on sprouting leaves and the headline : " Refreshes the parts other beers can not reach " , thus demonstrating the imaginative leap creative people make from research findings to effect communication messages . |
| 25 | In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull , and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests . |
| 26 | They used it as a football for a bit — until it fell apart , then they saw the blood and got scared . |
| 27 | Shortly after reading that I was fascinated to come across Hugh Seton-Watson 's account , in a book written 44 years ago , of how in Eastern Europe between the wars the word ‘ Communist ’ had become popular with the poor subjects of largely dictatorial regimes because their rulers used it as a term of abuse against ‘ ordinary men and women who have asked for reforms , protested against bureaucratic abuse , or resisted the gendarmerie in the execution of some wanton brutality . ’ |
| 28 | One fire engine was damaged as crews used it as a barrier while they tried to extinguish the fire in the building 's upper floor and roof . |
| 29 | Also , a total of thirteen thousand , three hundred and fifty three delegates used it as a conference centre . |
| 30 | Weather prediction is vital to the success of farming and other activities , and for centuries people have watched the natural world closely and used it as a guide . |