Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] its [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new government decided it wanted its own paper and so bought the Mail , which became a bi-weekly in 1967 and went daily in 1969 . |
| 2 | They watched it chew its faultless way through several plates . |
| 3 | This is done by , when he thinks , ‘ … heard the same complaint and sat there powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 4 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 5 | Because of the wholesale integration of the theory and practice of the party into the national cultural formation , at no time did it promote its working-class constituency as an agent of social change . |
| 6 | Did it tumble then , did it hurt its little self ? ’ |
| 7 | Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , said it closed its third round of financing last week , an exercise that got started in January . |