Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties . |
| 2 | Secondly , Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties . |
| 3 | It moved to its present site in 1879 . |
| 4 | The brightest point for the capital has been the performance of the Traverse since it moved to its new £3.4 million home close to the Lyceum and Usher Hall . |
| 5 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
| 6 | The fireplan would be under the control of the company once it moved from its final assault position on to the enemy position . |
| 7 | ‘ Jessa — myn ! ’ it shouted from its dry mouth . |
| 8 | It rose to its highest point of 5.4 per cent in 1984 , falling back again to 4.7 per cent in 1988 , and with a threat of a further decline to the lowest point since the Second World War of 4.4 per cent in 1989 — despite all the Conservative Party 's claims to be the party that looks after the defence of the realm . |
| 9 | Again it rose from its leafy perch and soared up into the sky . |
| 10 | The group claimed that AY should have discovered the alleged fraud and should not have given Alkar the clean bill of health it received in its 1987 accounts . |
| 11 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 12 | The brewery was founded in 1853 , started to make wheat beers in the 1890s , and has produced nothing else since it came into its present ownership , the Brombach family , in 1935 . |
| 13 | The letter , and the reactions to it , confirmed that the CPSU was afflicted with deep factional divisions as it prepared for its 28th congress in July , and that an imminent party split was a very real prospect . |
| 14 | Hissing loudly , it swivelled on its hind legs and disappeared , the tail banging like a rope on the top step as it fled . |
| 15 | The Thorolds , who still live at Marston , kept Sedgebrook until 1928 , after which it reverted to its early life as a farmhouse . |
| 16 | Quite possibly it reverted to its former use . |
| 17 | Country music was unquestionably one of the forerunners of rock'n'roll , and certainly one of its main constituents when it arrived in its recognised form . |
| 18 | It adds that inflation is likely to be higher and domestic demand slower than it predicted in its last report six months ago . |
| 19 | To do away at a blow with the protection against dishonesty , which the power of arrest and detention had been supposed to afford , it declared in its leading article 2 April 1869 , would appear little short of revolutionary to anyone who had not followed the course , and watched the tendency , of modern legislation . |
| 20 | This , it is claimed , provides at the same time a clue as to the meaning of fiction ; for fiction really is the result of treating that which can exist only derivatively , or " parasitically " , as if it existed in its own right . |
| 21 | The production of a group of related species on the different islands of an archipelago provided a model for divergent evolution , suggesting that , when a species was divided into separate breeding populations , each of those populations had the ability to change as it adapted to its new environment . |
| 22 | After the war it returned to its original Brescia-Rome-Brescia route . |
| 23 | The Church was only effective when it broke through its old taboos and shibboleths and followed the Spirit who could come upon Samaritans and Gentiles as well as Jews . |
| 24 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |
| 25 | An almost identical Bill was introduced as a private member 's Bill in the 1973–74 session and successfully completed its passage through the House of Lords , when it fell at its Second Reading in the House of Commons on the dissolution of Parliament . |
| 26 | It grew to its current size by selling mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s but since then has seen a decline in this business . |
| 27 | Away it went on its long trip to the moon . |
| 28 | His manservant turned , stared out of the doorway and caught the sounds of the priory community as it went about its daily tasks ; the clang of milk pails , the rumble of cartwheels , and beneath the liquid song of the birds , the gentle chanting of the nuns from the priory church . |
| 29 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 30 | It completely failed to influence public opinion when it emerged from its secret society chrysalis in 1939 , and in spite of its extremism and the uncertainties of the law with regard to seditious libel where public order was not threatened , the authorities decided that any move against the group would give it unwanted publicity and might achieve more harm than good . |