Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ship slowed its fall and drifted down across the scrublands until it met its own shadow . |
| 2 | I will not pass this way again to see if it did him any good . |
| 3 | If it did anything this mass burning ensured that Lewes remained a stronghold of Protestantism , and the people of Cliffe still celebrate Bonfire Night at the Martyr 's Memorial with a sectarian fervour far exceeding the mild anti-Popery of other marchers . |
| 4 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 5 | The decision caused consternation on both sides of the House , because it confirmed what many people feared : that Britain was slipping too far behind the superpowers ; and was , indeed , losing a measure of her sovereignty . |
| 6 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 7 | But you had to win it twice before it became your own property . |
| 8 | The saw stuck when it reached its own depth , but he kept on trying . |
| 9 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 10 | Fergie says : ‘ Finally something did happen , but it soon became clear that the Queen was just not capable of getting involved in emotional , personal problems — even though it involved her own flesh and blood . ’ |
| 11 | Julian watched them , and every moment of watching only confirmed his election , though it set him another league away from her . |
| 12 | There must have been a lot of that sort of thing , when you come to think about it : tolerating ideological undesirables as long as it suited your own book — not that National Socialism had much ideology beyond being first at the trough . |
| 13 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 14 | I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave . |
| 15 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |