Example sentences of "used it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 2 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 3 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 4 | The Department of Transportation in Maryland , for example , used it for an interactive touch-screen system providing tourists with video , textual , graphical and audio information about the city and its transport network . |
| 5 | They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post . |
| 6 | Often it was relatives or friends of us permanents , who used it as a temporary place to stay on arrival until they found bedsits or whatever . |
| 7 | He used it as a chemical store once it had been deconsecrated or whatever it is they do to unused churches . |
| 8 | The English used it as a convenient base for raids into the Scots East and Middle Marches , and as a permanent threat , its strong position on the rocky spine at the junction of the two rivers making it a very difficult nut to crack . |
| 9 | He attended the assembly 's sessions regularly and on several occasions used it as a parliamentary forum in which to press his case . |
| 10 | We had read it , used it as an absorbent insulating layer to combat puddles and spilt porridge , and finally , when it and our bowels had reached saturation point , used it as lavatory paper ! |
| 11 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |