Example sentences of "use for pump " in BNC.
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| 1 | This engine was originally used for pumping water out of the mine workings at Griff Colliery , Nuneaton , from 1723 , and was later moved to other sites , ending up at Hawkesbury Junction on the Coventry Canal , where it remained in use until 19 13 . |
| 2 | This was the first commercially successful steam engine and was used for pumping water out of a mine . |
| 3 | These were mainly used for pumping water out of mines , thus enabling deeper seams to be exploited . |
| 4 | Most firms regarded the cost as low and confined mainly to power used for pumping and to maintenance . |
| 5 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 6 | They were used for pumping but they were bulky machines and were never installed underground . |