Example sentences of "used it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin . |
| 32 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 33 | Puling neurasthenic , used it to justify his laudanum binges . |
| 34 | She found a glowing ember and used it to close her wounds , then forced herself to stand . |
| 35 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Always used to draw my truncheon if I went into a place where I thought there was a burglar but never actually used it to hit them . |
| 38 | It smashed and he picked up one the table legs and used it to hit her . ’ |
| 39 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 40 | The outside world first became aware of the word ‘ orang-utan ’ in 1641 , when a Dutchman called Nicholas Tulp used it to refer to an ape brought to Europe . |
| 41 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 42 | He first used it to wipe some of the filth from the priest , then lifted the sponge to Rafferty 's mouth , forcing it in . |
| 43 | He balled it , and used it to wipe up the mess . |
| 44 | It illustrates the pyramiding effect of interbank lending which means that no single customer or bank can be sure of where credit , i.e. deposits loaned , it extends will end up ( Shell 's deposit was loaned by Barclays to Lloyds and the latter used it to grant a loan to BP ) . |
| 45 | His anger was still there , and he used it to break into her . |
| 46 | The aircraft was sold then to Francisco Sarabia , who used it to break the Mexico City to New York record in 1938 . |
| 47 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 48 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 49 | Even the Beatles used it to symbolize their vision of a more just world when they named their business Apple Corp . |
| 50 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |
| 51 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 52 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 53 | Laura groped in her coat pocket for a scrap of hanky , and used it to dab at her eyes . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Then take the matter of the car jack which , according to Bourke , he smuggled in to Blake who used it to prise away the window bars in order to make his escape from D block . |
| 56 | Dawn used it look , she put it up in the cupboard . |
| 57 | It was a neat line to end on and she used it to excuse herself and go upstream to wash , using the chilly water to freeze her blood and perhaps put a coat of ice about her heart . |
| 58 | After owning the Messenger for about five years , during which the Walton family used it to tour all over Europe , Lindsey felt the time was right for a change . |
| 59 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 60 | ‘ We used it to pay for car hire , the hall , flowers and drinks . |