Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [pos pn] [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 | But you had to win it twice before it became your own property . |
| 3 | The saw stuck when it reached its own depth , but he kept on trying . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 8 | I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave . |
| 9 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |