1.   John took his party in by a back door, using the yard between the Foreign Office and the new building.

2.   But cats still use our yard as a nocturnal recreation area, and their after-dark entertainment takes many forms.

3.   He said homeless people have used his yard as a toilet, threatened his family and stolen things from him and his neighbors.

4.   Homeowners are using their yards for everything from quiet breakfast nooks to jazz-filled banquet halls for entertaining hundreds.

5.   Matt and his dad use our yard for pitching practice so I can easily look out of my office window and watch Matt throw one right over the plate.

6.   Now the field was even bigger, and the Dutch used every yard of it.

7.   Railroads use classification yards to assemble long trains.

8.   Some yards were used to park dead snowmobiles.

9.   The lawyer, John McHugh, objected to the plan because he said the yard should be used as a transportation hub.

10.   These days, its sprawling yards are used as playing fields for Hillcrest students.