Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] its [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the current position is that there 's been substantial progress er in Greater York , and I think its testimony to the willingness of the Greater York authorities to work together there that there 's been such a level of agreement I think probably er never before achieved in the Greater York area as to the direction that Greater York erm er should take . |
| 2 | I held its stretcher by the middle bar , |
| 3 | She followed its descent to the water 's edge , then looked across to where a high rock wall was studded with clumps of ferny growth that had found soil in crevices . |
| 4 | Once information is judged material , we weigh its relevance against the constraints , and balance the costs of reporting it against the benefits . |
| 5 | They are small easel-pictures , but stand clearly apart from vase-painting and in the tradition of wall-painting as we glimpsed its beginning on the Chigi vase ( fig. 18 ) a century earlier . |
| 6 | They were so fascinated by sex that they elevated its study from the status of a hobby to that of a science . |
| 7 | The right-wing Catholic party , the Christian National Union ( ZChN ) , asked Zielinski to oppose the 1956 law , but Health and Social Welfare Minister Marian Miskiewicz called on him to clarify its status with the Constitutional Court . |
| 8 | Keep the weight well towards the left foot and push the ball down low , letting it bobble its way up the bank . |
| 9 | It is a general feature of the education system that both through its programmed and ‘ hidden ’ curricula it plays its part in the socialisation of the individual and in social reproduction . |
| 10 | And the place is not simply the background or backdrop against which the action occurs ; it plays its part in the drama . |
| 11 | It turns its attention to the Isle of Wight Regatta . |
| 12 | A phenomenon which can occur on a high speed reach when air bubbles work their way down the skeg and cause it to lose its grip in the water . |
| 13 | It points its finger at the odious hypocrisies of AIDS-sufferer Roy Cohn , one of Senator McCarthy 's henchmen . |
| 14 | If this government channelled its resources against employers who disregard the health and safety legislation as much as it channels its energy at the trade unions through the Employment Act I 'm sure we would see a great decrease in accidents and |
| 15 | Its courtship of Mitel ended in tears last year when it sold its stake in the Canadian company at a loss of £120m ( $120m ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I sold my soul to rock'n'roll before it sold its soul to the major multi-nationals . ’ |
| 17 | Azhag flew over the battlefield on his wyvern , swooping upon regiment after regiment and harrying the retreating army as it made its way to the refuge of Wolfenburg . |
| 18 | It made its debut at the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring with Jack behind the wheel , but he was forced to retire after nine laps . |
| 19 | The ZSL — challenged by the emergence of the PSL and the PSL-S , and faced with the expression of mass support by its membership for the PSL — had brought forward its 11th extraordinary congress to Nov. 26-27 , 1989 , when it changed its name to the PSL-Rebirth ( PSL — Odrodzenie ) . |
| 20 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 21 | ASLEF started life as a breakaway from the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in the 1880s and it retained its autonomy during the process of amalgamations that led to the formation of the NUR . |
| 22 | It owes its origin to the Ars conjectandi of James Bernoulli ( 1713 ) , and was extensively treated by Abraham de Moivre [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | It owes its name to the fact that it was used as the floor covering at the coronation of Frederik IV in 1699 , and that of all subsequent absolute kings . |
| 24 | It owes its position to the fame of Sillery which , equally overrated , owes its reputation to the vines of Verzeray . |
| 25 | Although the SPD agreed with the bill 's intention and much of its detail , it used its majority in the Bundesrat to reject the bill because it empowered the government to use telephone-tapping and mail-interception to gather evidence of illegal arms sales . |
| 26 | It has its origin in the academic institution 's need to justify the endless multiplication of commentaries , from undergraduate essays to doctoral dissertations and scholarly articles . |
| 27 | The next day he reported its receipt to the House of Commons and forwarded it to the Treasury with some papers explaining the background to the competition . |
| 28 | ‘ A lot of it found its way to the Irish Republic . ’ |
| 29 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 30 | Somehow it found its way into the hands of a government minister , and he got in touch with us . ’ |