Example sentences of "use it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 2 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 3 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 4 | Apparently Charles only uses it to entertain VIPs . |
| 5 | British Gas uses it to trace leaks . |
| 6 | Whichever way word- processing is used it gives learners the means of refining text until it satisfies them . |
| 7 | The Ancient Greeks would have used it to learn scales . |
| 8 | You can also use it to report incidents of sexual or racial harassment . |
| 9 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 10 | It also differs from PRINT CHR$ ( n ) in that you can not use it to send codes or characters to the printer . |
| 11 | Councils with money in the bank can not use it to build homes and the economy is in such a mess that the private sector is not building either . ’ |
| 12 | But of course that can become quite a complex thing depending on how much we want to sort of use it to produce certificates and things like that . |
| 13 | The last person to use it saw sparks fly . |
| 14 | We have been able to use it to take clients away for short term holiday respite breaks which have proved very successful . |
| 15 | In 1987 the bank raised £700m in a rights issue , only to use it to make provisions of £1.02bn against sovereign debt , a move that pushed the Midland into its first ever loss . |
| 16 | Do you need to use it to keep corals ( hard and soft ) , tubeworms , anemones , and the like alive ? |
| 17 | Retailers with power will , perhaps less commonly , use it to invoke restraints such as slotting allowances for the right of a manufacturer 's product to be on the shelves of a supermarket . |
| 18 | Some use it to scrape algae from the rocks . |
| 19 | This being so , it is surely better to acknowledge the power of behaviour and use it to improve relationships and enhance communication between people . |
| 20 | From my trouser pocket I take a handkerchief , and I use it to clean fingerprints off the gun . |
| 21 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
| 22 | A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime . |
| 23 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
| 24 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 25 | ‘ We had to keep our hands on the reins at that point in the race though we were still allowed to carry the whip and use it to prevent horses running out , refusing , or causing accidents . |
| 26 | Use it to prevent words splitting at line-endings . |
| 27 | it is your duty as a manager to do everything to beat the grapevine ; never use it to convey messages ; the grapevine always imputes evil motives to the most benign actions |
| 28 | ‘ I use it to soothe headaches , ’ she says . |
| 29 | During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC . |
| 30 | And there would seem to be an easy , gradual continuum between using the voice to make echoes and using it to mimic echoes . |