Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] its [adj] [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 From that time on , the photosynthesizing organisms emerged as the predominant life forms , and the atmosphere was altered by the increasing out-pouring of oxygen , until it reached its present state .
3 It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner .
4 But you would still not be surprised if it ended its useful life after ten years or so of daily use .
5 The Pru 's ‘ transparent ’ financial reporting has been dominating the headlines recently since it restated its 1991 life and pensions accounts under the accruals basis .
6 They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas , and never since it received its new mistress .
7 PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control .
8 The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer .
9 The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer .
10 The bone which in lizards conducts sound from the ear-drum to the inner ear originated as the hind border of a gill slit in a fish , and then became a strut bracing the jaw articulation to the skull , before it acquired its present function .
11 Indeed , initially favoured by the government to soak up excess cereal production , it was one which linked agricultural , manufacturing and commercial capitalism before it reached its proletarian consumers .
12 The paper which , unlike Haycocks I and II , was not considered by the main ACSTT Committee because it arrived too late before it concluded its five year term , was circulated by the DES to interested organizations for discussion and comment and a large number of responses was received .
13 In the social work field this was strikingly acknowledged by the Curtis Committee on the care of children , which recommended the setting up of a Central Training Council on Child Care before it published its final report recommending radical changes in the organization of the care of deprived children .
14 The Ark of Noah , before it found its final resting-place , had struck the summit of Sippan Dagh and removed its cap , thereby exposing the inner fires of the earth .
15 The reforms were designed to strengthen the government 's position before it presented its economic programme to the International Monetary Fund later in the month .
16 It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon .
17 The saw stuck when it reached its own depth , but he kept on trying .
18 It is rare nowadays to find a research council able to live within its means and reasonably happy with its situation , but that is the impression that the Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC ) put over when it launched its annual report .
19 The Times ( 15 August 1898 ) had given the broadest indication of the shock-waves produced by the push-bike when it delivered its editorial judgement on ‘ The Bicycle as a Social Force ’ , which bristled with otherwise unaccountable fears and allusions to deeper moving forces within society .
20 The scene for the election to the Constitutional Convention was formally set by the British Government when it published its White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " ( see above page 8 ) which was almost immediately followed by the passing of the Northern Ireland Act 1974 on 17 July .
21 I am a Word Processor Operator as well as a keen knitter and so I ‘ borrowed ’ a little high-tech knowledge from that field to solve my problem when it reared its ugly head during my introduction to the knitting machine .
22 The King Edward VI grammar school is one of the most ancient in the country and is known to have been an educational institution from at least 1276 , though it received its Royal Charter in 1551 .
23 So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " .
24 Stuart Taylor was lucky enough to be on RF325 as it took its last bow .
25 The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade .
26 Yeltsin confirmed that the 1961 treaty of friendship , co-operation and mutual assistance between North Korea and the Soviet Union was no longer effective , and that Russia would not provide financial or military support for the Pyongyang regime until such time as it improved its human rights record and adopted a more co-operative stance on the issue of nuclear inspection .
27 For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap .
28 It 's circulation was peaking as it reached its fiftieth edition .
29 Her face looked calm and beautiful as it slept its enforced slumber , the lips slightly parted , the dark curls spilling over a pale cheek .
30 We used to count as it played its seven colours
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