Example sentences of "used it [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth used it to stress her point . |
| 2 | CLUE is n't a page makeup system as such but it can be used to create very impressive documents , Blackwells recently used it to publish their book catalogue . |
| 3 | The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture — figures , groups and relief work — from Greece and Etruria and used it to decorate their buildings and homes . |
| 4 | I removed my hand gently , and used it to lift my glass of tea . |
| 5 | Puling neurasthenic , used it to justify his laudanum binges . |
| 6 | She found a glowing ember and used it to close her wounds , then forced herself to stand . |
| 7 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 8 | Even the Beatles used it to symbolize their vision of a more just world when they named their business Apple Corp . |
| 9 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 10 | The old Chinese army used it to train their generals in strategy . |
| 11 | Ancient Greek women used it to dilate their pupils … hence , ‘ belladonna ’ … |
| 12 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 13 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 14 | She untied the shoelace and did what she could to tame the unruly curls , then took off her red scarf and used it to tie her hair back firmly at the nape of her neck . |