Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , Cetia announced it had expanded its co-operative relationship with Lynx Real-time Systems Inc , Los Gatos , California to put up its Posix-compliant Unix on the new products . |
| 2 | Further , during a decade of considerable and protracted difficulty it had secured its autonomous position in co-operative partnership with the Cambridge Board and the LEAs in the region through its own strenuous efforts to expand educational activities in an endeavour to serve the anticipated post-war democratic state . |
| 3 | As an old-established settlement , it had boasted its own school since 1604 and the schoolmaster 's house of this date , although much altered , survives on an adjoining site . |
| 4 | Claiming to have uncovered details of plans for an imminent military coup , the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) stated on Nov. 27 that it had placed its remaining guerrilla forces ( an estimated 3,000 not yet demobilized ) on full alert . |
| 5 | Peak time for radio , once it had reached its post-TV level , was in the early morning , when people were getting up , having breakfast and driving to work . |
| 6 | The 1930s were the era of the detective story , and it had reached its maximum popularity with Edgar Wallace . |
| 7 | There was even one tunnel which , after it had reached its original destination outside the wire , was continued twenty or thirty yards to further cover . |
| 8 | On 17 September Christie 's announced that it had cut its interim payment down to 0.5p compared with 2.3p in the first half of last year . |
| 9 | Former Cray Research Inc chairman John Rollwagen has withdrawn his name from further consideration for the number two post at the US Commerce Department after the Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to participate in an insider trading probe centring on sale of shares in Cray Computer Corp ahead of that company 's announcement that it had lost its only Cray 3 order . |
| 10 | It was cold inside but the friar was pleased that it had lost its musty smell . |
| 11 | Disdaining man-made boxes , it had excavated its own hole — into which it now disappeared . |
| 12 | He suggested that NATO peacekeeping troops could act under the aegis of the CSCE after it had exhausted its political mechanisms . |
| 13 | Mr Fowler conceded that a union might not always be able to do this but it would have to show that it had used its best endeavours . |
| 14 | It was not till 14 August 1779 that the little five-ship force led by the self-styled ‘ Commander-in-Chief of the American squadron now in Europe ’ finally left Brest , but by the 21st it had taken its first prize and others rapidly followed . |
| 15 | Or at least its mounted divisions did for , as usual , it had left its slow foot , the majority inevitably , far behind , speed being so important for Berwick . |
| 16 | It is not surprising , therefore , that when the National Trust announced that it had recruited its 2 millionth member last autumn , rejoicing was not unmixed with the occasional grumble that the Trust had become too big ; in other words there was a presumption by some that such a large membership must inevitably be accompanied by the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in the organisation itself . |
| 17 | The quay was stacked with empty fish boxes , there were platform scales , a yellow dog sleeping in the sun , a small battered truck which looked as though it had found its last resting place , and a notice about rabies . |