Example sentences of "use [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 2 | Now we are to have ‘ Sovereign : A Celebration of Forty Years of Service ’ from 3 April ( until 13 September ) , brainchild of Robin Gill , Executive Chairman of the charity Royal Anniversary Trust which will receive any profits arising from the exhibition and use them for educational projects . |
| 3 | The umbrella ants chew up leaves and use them for growing food . |
| 4 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 5 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 6 | Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops . |
| 7 | Now you can take any icon and use it for other Window programs including your own ! |
| 8 | an old tank yeah , so that they can save the water and use it for other things . |
| 9 | By taking advantage of this facility , we can draw one pattern in a basic design option ( such as Fair Isle as we have done ) and then use it for many different types of knitting . |
| 10 | ‘ No , absolutely not , though people can take information from it and use it for that purpose if they 're so minded . |
| 11 | no you just use it for that and I 'm not going anywhere else |
| 12 | Many companies , including John Lewis and Woolworths , use it for all their cracker cartons . |
| 13 | Spiders use it for all kinds of purposes — making egg-sacs , lining nests , weaving tents for their babies and as safety lines when they jump . |
| 14 | It is so good that we now use it for all our drawing and image manipulation for the artwork you see in this section of the magazine . |
| 15 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
| 16 | They use it for official purposes and are likely to continue to do so for some considerable while . |
| 17 | But there must be hundreds of little firms all over the country who still use it for special jobs . " |
| 18 | the school was able to save money on non-educational things like waste collection , and then use it for educational items ; and |
| 19 | Er like when you go out and catch mackerel you use it for fresh bait then . |
| 20 | Use it for some land , maybe here , in the city , as an investment . ’ |
| 21 | Other European countries use prison sentencing much less than Britain , and use it for shorter periods of time . |