Example sentences of "used it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 2 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 3 | Three generations of Aylings ran a respectable newspaper and I handed it over to someone who sent it plummeting down-market , used it to promote an extreme political view and was a thoroughly bad employer . ’ |
| 4 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 5 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 6 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |
| 7 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 8 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 9 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
| 12 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 13 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 14 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 15 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 16 | the pink bits the bit that fits onto ridge , they 've got three screws in each piece but they only need two to hold them , so I 've taken the centre one out of each one and used it to do the |
| 17 | More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin . |
| 18 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 19 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 20 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The aircraft was sold then to Francisco Sarabia , who used it to break the Mexico City to New York record in 1938 . |
| 23 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |
| 24 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 25 | They used it to buy a truck , which earned more money , which they used in turn to create a new farm , with further grants from the government . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Through all the beliefs and countries which used it runs the thread of its curative effect on the eyes , and ability to strengthen the sight . |
| 28 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 29 | Recently I used it to stick a plastic-coated wire rack to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door while I checked the position of the rack with the door closed . |
| 30 | The Christian Democrats used it to win the votes of farmers . |