Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weakly she willed him not to , but if he sensed her resistance he ignored it , his mouth tantalising her with its warm desirability . |
| 2 | The familiar waste-land of the empty auditorium engulfed him with its seedy , oppressive presence . |
| 3 | Grief hit me in its fullest force much later . |
| 4 | As the Local Government Chronicle put it in its leading article of 1 November : ’ To introduce poll tax is a mistake , to bring in council tax is a disaster . ’ |
| 5 | He buried his face against her throat , his mouth tormenting her with its lazy progress down towards the swell of her breasts , and she arched up , silently begging for his caress . |
| 6 | The Israeli Cabinet approves Shamir 's " peace plan " ; three days later the plan is approved by the Knesset , but the PLO rejects it in its present form . |
| 7 | As it goes to do so , the bug stabs it with its dagger-shaped mouth-parts . |
| 8 | They spent an additional £45,000 on renovating it — although the beacon needs more work to restore it to its former glory . |
| 9 | One coach only needs a small amount of work to restore it to its original condition , but the other requires extensive work . |
| 10 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 11 | Current ideas of the structure of water visualize it as being composed of a random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds ( Figure 7 ) , some of which are strained or even broken , but with a general structure not unlike that which is found in ordinary ice , also known as hexagonal ice to distinguish it from its variant form , cubic ice , which is formed at lower temperatures . |
| 12 | Even in making oneself more aware in preparation for a choice , it will be enough that one can identify which would be the relatively stronger inclination in the fullest attainable awareness ; there will be no need to experience it in its full intensity or to prolong it after the choice . |
| 13 | Then , to her everlasting shame , a new and totally unexpected sensation found its way into her consciousness , so devastating , so unlike anything she had ever experienced before , as her body betrayed her with its instant response . |
| 14 | Lord Hunt , at the time a young official in the Dominions Office , offered a similar interpretation in his 1983 survey of what had happened to Cabinet government since Lloyd George and Hankey invented it in its modern form . |
| 15 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 16 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 17 | Oh ! hear me witness that my heart is set on higher things ; it would sail into far seas unvisited of man , but always there is this anchor of the flesh chaining it to its native shore . ’ |
| 18 | The organisers are expecting 40,000 young people to visit it during its four-day run . |
| 19 | The rose is one of our national flowers and this month sees it in its full glory . |
| 20 | Conservative politicians attack the BBC for its alleged left-wing bias ( Newton , 1988a , p. 326 ) ; academic sociologists attack it for its alleged anti-trade union and pro-right-wing bias ( Glasgow University Media Group , 1976 , 1980 , 1982 ; Beharrell and Philo , 1977 ) . |
| 21 | And if we look at the planets of our solar system , lo and behold , every single one of them is travelling at exactly the right velocity to keep it in its stable orbit around the Sun . |
| 22 | Selling needs public relations to assist it in its everyday operation and selling is often called upon to disseminate a public relations message . |
| 23 | While electoral democracy is spreading across Europe ( and the world ) , why does Britain restrict it for its own citizens ? |
| 24 | It should be collected primarily because government needs it for its own businesses . ’ |
| 25 | The National Assembly elects a 31-member Council of State to represent it between its twice-yearly ordinary sessions ; the President of the Council of State is the head of state . |
| 26 | The National Assembly elects from its members a 31-member Council of State to represent it between its twice-yearly ordinary sessions ; the President of the Council of State is the head of state . |
| 27 | Thankfully , she allowed the revolving door to take her in its firm embrace and deposit her in the hall . |
| 28 | Or , third , Britain could conclude that modern weapons are simply too costly for any single country of its size to make them on its own — and could stick to international joint ventures in future . |
| 29 | If approached by a predator , the crab confronts it with its outstretched claws bearing the stinging anemones , rather as primitive man might have held a wolf at bay by using a flaming torch . |
| 30 | The plumber then set to work encasing the ‘ mummy ’ in its close-fitting anthropoid shell after which the carpenter 's men put it into its outer wooden case , upholstered in rich blue velvet . |