Example sentences of "use it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | More than half of us used it with a video-recorder , chiefly for films and soap operas taped from broadcasts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Melcarek and Brown then used it for a study of the effects of chill stress on both prompt and delayed fluorescence . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | He named the coccus Micrococcus lysodeikticus and used it as a test for identifying the destructive or lysing agent . |
| 8 | Owen found a hole in the wall , used it as a stepping place and swung his leg over the top . |
| 9 | In the early 1900s possession passed from the Walsingham family to the Gunters who used it as a country home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Camisards took refuge here from the Catholic armies … and the Maquis used it as a hiding place for their weapons during the Occupation . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jews , on the other hand , used it as a way of referring to God . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull , and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests . |
| 19 | They used it as a football for a bit — until it fell apart , then they saw the blood and got scared . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Also , a total of thirteen thousand , three hundred and fifty three delegates used it as a conference centre . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | they found a room large enough in a dark part of Nightside and after clearing out the bugs , milkcrates , music stands and rusty oil drums , used it as a workshop . |
| 25 | Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community . |
| 26 | The Playnes used it as a cloth mill in the 19th century but it was also a saw mill . |
| 27 | That this was true offered no excuse to the sick , evil , vicious minds that used it as a tool . |
| 28 | We published Agenda for the 90's , a statement of RIBA policies ranging from Housing to the Environment and used it as a tool with which to lobby parliamentary candidates for the General Election . |
| 29 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 30 | Tony signalled her not to annoy Frank in case he used it as an excuse to follow Terry , but he only seemed amused . |