Example sentences of "used it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacob said nobody had used it since that terrible accident . ’ |
| 2 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 3 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 4 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 5 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 6 | Although Symphonic Variations was not intended as a ritual , Ashton can be said to have used it as such for six dancers who were practising their art in the spacious simplicity of Sophie Fedorovitch 's décor . |
| 7 | In terms of how rant and rave for probably not very long and you do n't get aggressive behaviour , got nowhere else to go , you got ta get to come back down hang on to the chair to grim death absolute shambles never used it like this . |
| 8 | And DeVore , hearing it , had felt he had used it like some secret password ; some token of mutual understanding . |
| 9 | I assume , Chairman , director is the right word , because we 've used it amongst all the other , we 've got the director of library services , we 've got the director of property services and what have you . |
| 10 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |