Example sentences of "a use for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , most importantly , it was where Colonel Goreng had a use for me . |
| 2 | The hour may come within weeks , within days , to-morrow ; and then , before I take the field with the fate of Wales in my hands , I have a need of her and a use for her here ; and then I shall be loosed from this dumbness that binds my tongue , and I shall be able to say to her what needs to be said , and what as yet I can not say . |
| 3 | ‘ You must be very clever to find a use for something that costs nothing , ’ she said . |
| 4 | The context of these submissions is the undertaking given by British Steel at the time of privatisation that it would consider commercial offers for the steel mill facilities if it no longer had a use for them . |
| 5 | The conduct of the consumer may also be relevant where he has put the product to a use for which it was not intended . |
| 6 | Remember to keep all the topsoil you remove ; you 're bound to find a use for it later ! |
| 7 | People must n't think that because there 's a computer , they 've got to think of a use for it . ’ |
| 8 | As Eric Fawcett recalls , ‘ It was a polymer so unlike the polymers known at the time that no one could envisage a use for it . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe you can find a use for it , girl . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I found a use for it . ’ |
| 11 | If I could have thought of a use for it at the time , I would have stayed and bid . |
| 12 | Hilary Seymour-Strachey had readily agreed , for , though he had not his brother 's absorbing and exclusive interest in money — still , he always had a use for it , and the thought was beginning to occur to him that he might soon have a woman and child to support , in addition to himself . |
| 13 | Maybe Peter has a use for it . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't think I 'll ever have a use for it . |
| 15 | I think we 've got a use for it to demonstrate that we , merely to demonstrate we had it er , at least er , on , in March the twenty , what ever it is . |
| 16 | Perhaps the war offered adventure , travel , a use for his gifts . |
| 17 | We may find a use for you one day in some undercover job . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you will become something of a vegetable , unfortunately , but I 'm sure our guards , so lonely this far from home , will find a use for you even in that state . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And , Owen , I have yet a use for you here and now . |