Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 2 | Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae . |
| 3 | Harvard 's new pathway got through its pilot years relying on the motivated staff and fellows . |
| 4 | But in his relief at having finished the play he scarcely cared about its imperfections . |
| 5 | When the state sold off its industrial interests or sponsored new ventures in the 1880s , it favoured the zaibatsu who tended to accumulate specialized industrial holdings , rather like the more recent French strategy of creating large firms as sector leaders . |
| 6 | After using it , I asked about its accuracy , as the readings bore no resemblance to that of the chemical test kit . |
| 7 | He asked about its effectiveness , whether it would have a palliative effect , and how it would work . |
| 8 | She asked about its contents and was told that the terms merely protected the cleaners from liability for damage to sequins and beads . |
| 9 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 10 | Norsk Data A/S , yesterday asked for its listing on the Oslo bourse to be temporarily cancelled — for up to two months , although it says it hopes to reach final agreement with its major creditors this month . |
| 11 | Since the book had apparently served the purpose we asked for its return , only to be told by a shamefaced colleague : " I 'm awfully sorry but I can not remember where I put it . " |
| 12 | The drug cartels , in a letter to congressional president Luis Guillermo Giraldo Hurtado on Oct. 23 , 1989 , under their pseudonym the " Extraditables " , displayed previous knowledge of the Supreme Court 's ruling and asked for its recognition as part of a peace plan rejected by the government who reaffirmed that emergency extraditions would continue . |
| 13 | But , as Mailer said about A Harlot High and Low back in 1976 , Balzac was ‘ concerned as much with secret police as with the prostitutes who passed through its pages , but then whores and political agents made a fair association for Balzac ’ . |
| 14 | She asked : ‘ Is it suggested that all the ethnic minority members who passed through its doors were unworthy of membership ? ’ |
| 15 | He had executed in public deserters from his battalion when it fought for its life on the Basra to Baghdad road . |
| 16 | The earliest excavations , however , in 1948–9 at Ivel House , supplemented by observation of local service trenches , revealed surprisingly complex occupation including buildings with opus signinum and mosaic floors , at much the same time as Stevens argued for its status as a late civitas centre . |
| 17 | But I still retain sympathy for the misguided foreign tourists who read about its properties as a ‘ gateway to the beautiful western Highlands ’ and end up wandering in dismay down streets that make the Bronx look like Disneyland . |
| 18 | The most important work in the exhibition is ‘ The alchemist ’ , an enigmatic triptych deeply indebted to Caravaggio , which was previewed when the gallery reopened after its renovation of last season . |
| 19 | RATNERS , the jewellery chain whose profits plunged after its boss branded one of its lines ‘ total crap ’ , announced yesterday it is to close 180 shops . |
| 20 | It also contained a clause which effectively provided for its continued validity should the Soviet Union be dissolved or reconstituted . |
| 21 | Leaders of the three main ethnic groups on March 18 signed an agreement , negotiated under the auspices of the EC , on the future of the republic which provided for its division into three autonomous units along ethnic lines . |
| 22 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 23 | Møn was an idyll for me , one enriched for its being shared with my cousin , who was my closest friend . |
| 24 | Amid discussion of a possible UN resolution to condemn Iraq for war crimes , Bush said on Oct. 16 that the Iraqi leadership would be called to account for what he described as its " unprecedented brutality " . |
| 25 | But how and why this atomistic temporal concept , which Buddhism used for its own purposes , was adapted to the very different objects of Islam remains an open question . |
| 26 | The definition the CSD used for its survey was : ‘ organisations which have been set up or adopted by Departments and provided with funds to perform some function which the Government wish to have performed but which it did not wish to be the direct responsibility of a Minister or Department ’ . |
| 27 | What is implied by the notion of the super-ego is that the child may react less to the actual external forms of its parents , and more to its own projection of them , interiorized as its moral order . |
| 28 | ‘ It is like a house I dreamed of once , where I wandered through its rooms for an eternity . ’ |
| 29 | Ridgery Butts was a slovenly , poor village , clay and thatch hovels clustered about its church and windmill . |
| 30 | Gary also managed a goal for us , which brought him , as well as Palace fans , great delight for it was against his former club , Chelsea , upon his return to Stamford Bridge with the Eagles in November 1982 ( 2–2 ) , and as his career with us drew towards its close , he also performed capably in the centre of our defence . |