Example sentences of "used for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The means he used for getting home was the Central Line to Tottenham Court Road and then the Northern Line to Colindale , where he had left his car . |
| 2 | Osep brought up the piebald that Burun used for riding when he was with the clan , and Burun mounted . |
| 3 | She pegged it on to his blue jersey with the tiny plastic clothes-pins she used for hanging up her dripping stockings in the bathroom to dry overnight . |
| 4 | This may occur in the same physical configuration as that of Fig. 3.16 ( p. 81 ) used for calculating the torque upon a single turn of current-carrying wire . |
| 5 | The first mouthpiece brought to me was out of the van they used for transporting tramps . |
| 6 | Starving her until the next evening , he coaxed her with pony nuts into a stall which Raimundo used for branding and saddling bigger horses , which was so narrow she could n't turn round . |
| 7 | Thérèse had the pocket torch she used for reading under the bedclothes . |
| 8 | ‘ Fluon ’ G201 is a ten-year old grae of PTFE used for moulding and machining into engineering components . |
| 9 | The nose which they used for gathering food enabled them to pluck grass and reeds at their feet and to reach up into the trees above their heads . |
| 10 | Tormentil ( also used for tanning ) |
| 11 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 12 | Each boy had a inkwell and er a pen , blue-black ink and so on and some of the small books that we used for writing in were kept under the desk . |
| 13 | Hue and Cry jet off to Sigma Sound , NYC , to work with Jimmy Biondolillo ( Sinatra 's strings arranger ) and the horn section James Brown used for Living in America . |
| 14 | During that first week she went out with Nahum in the trap he used for visiting in the parish , and she was continually looking for a young woman with white hair and a baby . |
| 15 | The woman made a pile of cracked Minton tea plates in the wire in-tray that she used for stacking the washing-up . |
| 16 | EGF itself is used , by others as well as ourselves , at doses 100 to 1000 times that used for inducing DNA synthesis in cell cultures , because the phosphorylation is not readily detectable at a lower dose . |
| 17 | the Remote Spooling Communications Sub-system ( RSCS ) used to deliver data to the 3268 local printer the Interactive Problem Control System ( IPCS/E ) used for analysing operating system faults |
| 18 | Sheila and Mona were writing at side tables ; Michael was kneeling at the big armchair , a book between his elbows , as if in prayer , a position he sometimes used for studying . |
| 19 | It was a method that the footpads ( street robbers ) used for fighting . |
| 20 | The set-up for assemble editing is similar to the one used for making copy transfers but with the important qualification that assembly is a stop-start process . |
| 21 | He was in the living-room of his own flat , sitting at the table he used for working . |