Example sentences of "use it [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir .
2 To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects .
3 More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin .
4 It illustrates the pyramiding effect of interbank lending which means that no single customer or bank can be sure of where credit , i.e. deposits loaned , it extends will end up ( Shell 's deposit was loaned by Barclays to Lloyds and the latter used it to grant a loan to BP ) .
5 We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign .
6 They used it to buy a truck , which earned more money , which they used in turn to create a new farm , with further grants from the government .
7 One starts off with a syndrome and uses it to develop a theory of normal processing .
8 John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge ( 1716–93 ) , the Rector of Everton , had both been addicted to this practice ; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married .
9 If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place .
10 Thus , whatever the layman might mean by the term ‘ competition ’ , the equilibrium theorist came to use it to connote a market in which each participant is too weak to effect any change in price .
11 The best way to discover what HGW is like is to use it to create a presentation .
12 It hopes to use it to run a video on demand service .
13 Now we use it to write a file ( E.CLI again ) that we can use as redirected input .
14 Make the pastry and use it to line a 10-inch shallow fluted flan tin .
15 He suddenly thought of using it to play a joke on some of his friends at the Post , concealed it in his newspaper and left the pub .
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