Example sentences of "use it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 2 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 4 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 5 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 6 | He wrote out cheques from the account to pay his credit card debts , rent arrears and he also used it to clear phone bills and part of £500 taxi bill . |
| 7 | VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 . |
| 8 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 9 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 10 | When she received a gift from the Queensland corps back in Australia she used it to help Simon . |
| 11 | A speaker for whom " you know what I mean ? " is only an agreement-seeker may not understand a speaker who uses it to mark agreement . |
| 12 | So there are about 120000 tonnes of shell , and the frugal California Almond Growers Exchange uses it to generate electricity . |
| 13 | Apparently Charles only uses it to entertain VIPs . |
| 14 | British Gas uses it to trace leaks . |
| 15 | To the extent the seller uses it to manufacture stock for the buyer ahead of any orders he does so at his own risk . |
| 16 | The idea is that the mind , stimulated by key words or phrases in the text , or by the context , activates a knowledge schema , and uses it to make sense of the discourse . |
| 17 | colour is all-important to her and she uses it to convey feeling and sensation . |
| 18 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 19 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 20 | The US National Institute of Standards & Technology has used it to increase performance of robotic factory operations . |
| 21 | The US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) has used it to increase performance of robotic factory operations . |
| 22 | The Ancient Greeks would have used it to learn scales . |
| 23 | But you could use it to combat office harassment ( do I hear you say ‘ Chance would be a fine thing ? ’ ) . |
| 24 | Do not use it to spread anti-Polonism . ’ |
| 25 | You can also use it to report incidents of sexual or racial harassment . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | I would n't just use it to grab grab grab with . |
| 28 | But they can use it to hurt people too . ’ |
| 29 | It also differs from PRINT CHR$ ( n ) in that you can not use it to send codes or characters to the printer . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |