Example sentences of "[noun] use it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the police can exploit the technique for measuring the speed of road hogs , dare we hope to find that bats use it for measuring the speed of insect prey ? |
| 2 | Egyptians used it for embalming their dead , the Mesopotamians used it as perfume and the Romans thought it was an aphrodisiac . |
| 3 | If you had written that package , would you be angered by people using it without paying ? |
| 4 | A thickly built oak and beechwood sixteenth-seventeenth century refectory table from the Pyrenees , admittedly characterful ( Tajan 's auction staff used it for stacking their telephones on ) but more than difficult to place in a modern apartment , sold for FFr650,000 ( £67,550 ; $117,500 ) , over twice its high estimate . |
| 5 | See M er Martin tried to get it used as people use it for meeting rooms and things but er you see you ca n't park either can you ? |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The Hepplewhite Guide was influential beyond England , in America , in Denmark , where J. C. Lillie used it in designing chairs for Liselund in 1793 , and in Germany , where F. G. Hoffmann pirated Hepplewhite designs in his Meubles-Magazin ( Leipzig , 1795 ) . |
| 8 | The reason why there 's so much space above our heads here is simple : the climate controllers use it for inducing weather conditions for the whole of Arcady . ’ |