Example sentences of "used it [verb] " 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 | She used it to listen to Wagner on the tube , it turned her five-foot and a small something into a snarling Valkyrie , keeping the loonies at bay . |
3 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Ruth used it to stress her point . |
7 | CLUE is n't a page makeup system as such but it can be used to create very impressive documents , Blackwells recently used it to publish their book catalogue . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Geschichte as Kähler used it refers to past history as such ; Historie to history as studied by the means and methods of historical study . |
13 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
16 | The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture — figures , groups and relief work — from Greece and Etruria and used it to decorate their buildings and homes . |
17 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 ) . |
20 | Another has been tested by P T Breuer ( 1991 ) , who used it to speed up a game playing program . |
21 | Used it to patch up the hole in our roof . |
22 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
23 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
24 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
25 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
26 | 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 |
27 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |
28 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
29 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
30 | I removed my hand gently , and used it to lift my glass of tea . |