Example sentences of "use [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a neat line to end on and she used it to excuse herself and go upstream to wash , using the chilly water to freeze her blood and perhaps put a coat of ice about her heart . |
| 2 | I took my inhaler with me , and they took it off me , telling me I used it to make myself high . |
| 3 | A ball of green wool was passed around and we used it to bind ourselves together as the singing continued . |
| 4 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 5 | Its owner uses it to cool itself by squirting water or hurling dust over its body . |
| 6 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
| 7 | He did n't use them to force himself on me . |
| 8 | There were ways of bringing memories to the surface and he must use them to protect himself . |
| 9 | First , we might use it to persuade ourselves that the errors Wittgenstein found in classical foundationalism do n't really infect all forms of foundationalism . |
| 10 | Odder , though , that the killer , assuming there is a killer , did n't use it to dry himself rather than the smaller tea towel . ’ |
| 11 | In fact , a number of underwater animals have sufficiently delicate electric sensors to detect induced currents and they appear to use them to orient themselves . |
| 12 | If he 's not going to use them having yourself ? |
| 13 | He was using her to advance himself somehow , for the sake of his family , and he intended to bind her to him before the party , so that he could demand her total loyalty . |
| 14 | I think Chris was using her to get himself accepted into the organisation , whatever it was . ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 16 | If there is a space headed ‘ spare-time activities ’ or ‘ other information ’ , use it to show yourself in a positive light . |