Example sentences of "use it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Somebody uses it for boozing sessions . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ He just uses it for storage . ’ |
| 33 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 34 | But he uses , uses it for everything you know . |
| 35 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 36 | He uses it for taping i at work . |
| 37 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 38 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 39 | Two of our testers recommend Rimmel 's Hide the Blemish ( £1.09 ) , having used it for years . |
| 40 | I 've used it for carrying pens — you do n't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live ! |
| 41 | I have used it for children 's jacquard sweaters but if you want to do this then knit the welt from * to * finishing at the left of the bed . |
| 42 | Industrial Light is currently using an Alias system to create computer-generated dinosaurs for Steven Spielberg 's upcoming Jurassic Park film and has also used it for commercials . |
| 43 | With film this gap is micro seconds though cine photographers have used it for years , flashing whole rolls of film . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've used it for about three years . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Low-growing , almost mat-like , with white daisy flowers in summer , chamomile dates back to at least the time of the ancient Egyptians who are said to have used it for curing ague . |
| 47 | So you do n't finish up with a battery that as soon as you 've used it for about a minute , that 's it ca n't get any more |
| 48 | We have used it for scouting exercises . ’ |
| 49 | With film this gap is micro seconds though cine photographers have used it for years , flashing whole rolls of film . |
| 50 | I had no idea why I had brought the knife and what I 'd used it for . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | No one had used it for years . |
| 53 | Erm , what have you used it for ? |
| 54 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 55 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 56 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 57 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 58 | We we 've used it for things like the street clean |
| 59 | ‘ They 're not using it any more so they 've said I can use it for canteen stuff . |
| 60 | In addition , you can use it for metal-grinding , for instance when sharpening cold chisels , rotary-mower blades and other cutting tool blades . |