Example sentences of "it [vb past] [to-vb] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the narrow sense , it failed to achieve its specific aims . |
| 2 | Towards the end of 1989 the Commission substantially stepped up its campaign for universal environmental controls within the EC , most notably with regard to drinking water standards , where it sought to advance its planned deadlines for water purity . |
| 3 | It pledged to continue its own inquiry . |
| 4 | That wretched thumb was in her mouth again ; it left her mouth and she watched the hand it belonged to inch its slow way across the counterpane towards his , almost as though it had nothing to do with her . |
| 5 | Twenty seconds and it began to do its own action replay . |
| 6 | If the first British-born generation of Caribbeans can be said to date from the period around 1960 , then it began to reach its Creole-speaking adolescence around 1972 — as a result of a coincidence of factors which may or may not have something to do with the popularity of Jamaican music around that time . |
| 7 | BA argued that it needed to acquire its smaller rival in order to be able to compete more effectively with the mega-airlines that had emerged , particularly in the US , during the previous two years . |
| 8 | In the early 80s , for example , IBM decided it needed to use its own systems better to cut administration costs , make optimum use of network and computer investments , and create a basis for future developments . |
| 9 | but it needed to unlace its concrete stays |
| 10 | It is not exactly one of the world 's most prosperous economies , although the Opposition used to admire it greatly before it decided to drop its socialist credentials . |
| 11 | The fact that Follow Me was designed for broadcast meant that it had to do its own presentation , as it were , for home viewers . |
| 12 | But if Britain spoke with a moral voice , it had to put its own house in order . |
| 13 | The cylinder bounced hard on Dream Baby 's dazzle-painted transom , then sank in the clear water where , resting on the sea-bed , it continued to discharge its disgusting foam . |
| 14 | It continued to parrot its incendiary slogan , ‘ One settler , one bullet . ’ |
| 15 | It is not surprising that as opera spread over Europe it tended to preserve its original language , resisting the various vernaculars . |
| 16 | The Hudson 's Bay Company would have had to change the way it did business completely if it wanted to convert its coastal settlements to which Indians came to sell their furs into bases from which fur trading parties went into the interior . |
| 17 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 18 | Even before the report went to the printers , the Ombudsman , Sir Anthony Barrawclough , was told by the DTI 's most senior officer that it intended to give its own view , in a separate document , on the responsibilities of regulators . |