Example sentences of "[noun] used it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 2 | Ruth used it to stress her point . |
| 3 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
| 4 | Even the Beatles used it to symbolize their vision of a more just world when they named their business Apple Corp . |
| 5 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 6 | Hobson 's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own , quite distinct , theory of imperialism . |
| 7 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 8 | No , most people used it to get their er their er their weekly ration in |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | Geschichte as Kähler used it refers to past history as such ; Historie to history as studied by the means and methods of historical study . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The electorate took a dim view of this practice when the government used it to get the consumption tax through in December . |
| 13 | This claim was widely debated because Malthus used it to suggest that poverty and starvation were inevitable . |
| 14 | The old Chinese army used it to train their generals in strategy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 17 | Ancient Greek women used it to dilate their pupils … hence , ‘ belladonna ’ … |
| 18 | When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet in an earlier publication , in which the term was first coined , he and his colleagues used it to describe ‘ pain [ which ] ceases to be relieved or is worsened by further administration ’ of morphine or diamorphine ( our italics ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 23 | The Christian Democrats used it to win the votes of farmers . |
| 24 | Dawn used it look , she put it up in the cupboard . |
| 25 | Brenner used it to identify the relations between macroeconomic variables and the measures of national health during the economic cycles that took place in the course of several decades . |