Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 2 | The ‘ central zone ’ went the same way during March , its collapse preceded by a second ‘ civil war within the Civil War ’ : a tragicomic affair in which ‘ rebels ’ under Colonel Casado , anxious to negotiate a surrender , engineered a coup and then clashed with Communists eager to fight to the last . |
| 3 | The statue of the Archangel Michael had its head removed in the seventeenth century by a marksman in the castle . |
| 4 | Although curling , as a competitive game , had been played in Ayrshire for many centuries , its popularity increased in the 18th and 19th centuries , with town competing against town , village against village , and parish against parish . |
| 5 | One of the most famous amplifiers of all time , the Quad 405 has come to the end of its production run with the 100,000th unit . |