Example sentences of "[conj] used [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | That this was true offered no excuse to the sick , evil , vicious minds that used it as a tool . |
| 2 | Ted peeled some sticks pulled from the hedge and used them as markers by which to guide his plough , in order to set his rigs . |
| 3 | Y342 billion by the Toyo Shinkin Bank , and used them as loan collateral . |
| 4 | Dougal picked them up and used them as a lever . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 6 | You know our king , when he visited Maubisson , often called on Abbe Gerard and used him as a confessor ? ’ |
| 7 | In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search . |
| 8 | He named the coccus Micrococcus lysodeikticus and used it as a test for identifying the destructive or lysing agent . |
| 9 | Speaking almost simultaneously on Tyne-Tees Television 's Face the Press , Mrs Thatcher showed an acute awareness of criticisms of her Cabinet style and used it as an explanation for not confronting Heseltine earlier in the Westland debate : |
| 10 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’ |
| 12 | The film crew had leased a large hangar at Ford Island and used it as their headquarters during the filming . |
| 13 | They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post . |
| 14 | The creative team took this new insight and used it as a spring-board to create a very successful campaign based on sprouting leaves and the headline : " Refreshes the parts other beers can not reach " , thus demonstrating the imaginative leap creative people make from research findings to effect communication messages . |
| 15 | Weather prediction is vital to the success of farming and other activities , and for centuries people have watched the natural world closely and used it as a guide . |
| 16 | Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community . |
| 17 | We published Agenda for the 90's , a statement of RIBA policies ranging from Housing to the Environment and used it as a tool with which to lobby parliamentary candidates for the General Election . |
| 18 | It controlled the economic infrastructure and used it as a means of exploitation . |
| 19 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |