For example, if a company in the UK wanted to make socks, they'd be charged VAT on the price of the raw materials used to make them.

gluten to bind your food together, more fat and sugar are often used to make gluten-free

So this place used to make really good pizza.

Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman's research means that something called mRNA can be used to make vaccines.

We can synthesize cholesterol, which can be used to make bile salts and steroid hormones.

We used to make a washing machine with two drums, counter-rotating washing machine, which had very large capacity and washed well and quickly and gently.

Boxing Day comes from a British tradition that after Christmas, the wealthy people used to make little boxed gifts for the servants and all that stuff.

This is the warehouse where they used to make Homeshu and you can still see some of the equipment that was used including these massive old ceramic tanks.

I’d like you to write a short story, just one paragraph, which uses 3 examples of the past simple tense or the past continuous tense being used to make something sound more polite.

I used to make like vlog videos and a lot of people they always comment or say like bring back the vlog videos or people will message me and say bring back the vlog videos because I know they're entertaining, when I make a vlog it's not me, like I'll give advice but that's not the main goal of the vlog, usually it's for entertainment and most people in this society, they want entertainment and I understand that, I like entertainment because when you're like so immersed in an entertaining thing, when you're scrolling on your phone, what happens is you naturally, your mind is empty, this is what I'm talking about, this emptiness, but you don't have to rely on entertainment, if you train yourself to have an empty mind, then you don't need to scroll on your phone anymore to do it, there's nothing wrong with that but you could sit here, just like this, I could just sit here and I'll just feel the same, like it's all the same and it's good, it's life, I'm alive, do you ever just stop and you just think I'm alive and you just really let that sink in, like beyond any level you have before, like on the deepest level and you're like I'm alive, that's a beautiful feeling and when you're empty, you have that feeling more, yeah, if I want to make entertaining videos, I might but it's just so fun, it's so fun to just talk and to just do this, like this is what I enjoy, you know, I built my channel off the entertainment and then I pivoted so heavily into talking and just trying to give you wisdom because that's what I care about, I care about wisdom, that's my life's work again and maybe it'll take a while for me to find people who want that wisdom as opposed to people who want the entertainment and that's okay because I'm no longer attached to the external or what anybody thinks, that's the freedom that comes with having an empty mind, if someone is judging you and they feel some type of way about you, that's their problem, not yours, it's not your problem, now if they're judging you and it makes you feel a certain type of way, if someone's judging you and you feel bad about it, now that's your problem, you understand, it's not their problem that they're judging you, it's your problem that you're feeling it, so when you get beyond that to a point where it doesn't matter what anyone thinks, it doesn't matter what anyone says to you or judges you and you can do that by becoming empty and meditating and peeling back the layers, coming into what you really are.