Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] its " in BNC.
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1 | Lotta cooking in the fabulous kitchen ; Lotta relaxed on the teak and leather couch of the living-room enjoying the vista of the sea beyond the great beeches ; Lotta naked in the elegant bathroom , laughing beneath the shower , beckoning her handsome blond lover to join her ; Lotta sprawled on the black and white striped duvet cover of the large double bed , her shining gold cap of hair gleaming against its darkness , her body a pearly invitation … |
2 | Reference to pre-Chelsea days are rare , but Miller described in the Dictionary how he grew Monthly Roses ( the Autumn Damask ) in his original Southwark Nursery ; under glass against a warm wall , ‘ using dung placed against its backside , as practised by raising early fruits ’ , to produce roses in February , for which there must have been a ready market . |
3 | There is no automatic award given to its . |
4 | A head with two huge eyes and antennae pressed over its back pushes through the pupa at one end . |
5 | The CGT failed in its attempt to separate worker and student contingents . |
6 | Just imagine going into a court of law to argue a case depending on its provisions . |
7 | The computer goes through its list of 7000 engineers and site workers , classified into five groups depending on location and qualifications , and decides how many to call . |
8 | As the play builds to its climax , loyalties are strained , and it is only when Alec decides to cast aside the chains of a lifetime 's obedience that his character truly comes to life . |
9 | However , the growing budget deficit and lax credit policies led to its devaluation from parity with the rouble and caused a near breakdown in trade between Ukraine and Russia . |
10 | This explains why English has recourse to a preposition , a word whose function is to establish a relation between two words when no mechanism of incidence is provided for by the words themselves , in order to make the infinitive incident to a support situated outside its event time . |
11 | Her book is not a comprehensive history of English garden design , but a much chancier , though equally delightful narrative depending for its emphasis on what happened to find its way into the collection . |
12 | The Article 7 argument would have allowed Germany to continue with its opt-out provision for the benefit of employees , but the argument does not imply that countries , such as the UK , which in their national legislation make the transfer compulsory upon both employee and employer , are acting inconsistently with Community law . |
13 | Close by is the picturesque village of West Malling with its high street of protected buildings , scheduled as places of architectural interest . |
14 | It moves by jet-propulsion , squirting water through a siphon in a variation of the current-creating technique developed by its filter-feeding relatives . |
15 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's hot property for the Cebit computer fair in Hannover this year is the Active Badge system , an infra-red badge developed at its Cambridge research laboratory here in the UK and designed for access control and location applications . |
16 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
17 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
18 | If the idea itself is more important to you than the glory reflecting from its success , then raise the idea at a meeting so that it becomes an idea generated by a team . |
19 | Thus any construction with an adjective in postverbal position should differ in its semantic value from one using predicative position insofar , but only insofar , as the verb differs in its semantic value from zero . |
20 | MAFF is to allow scientists proposed by consumer groups to sit on its Advisory Committee on Pesticides . |
21 | There were ladders in both her stockings today and her hair spilled from its bun at all sides . |
22 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
23 | Each case turns on its own facts but once the boundary between protectable secrets and general skill and knowledge is crossed the employer can not , even by way of express covenant , restrict the employee 's ability to use those skills once employment has ended ( Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 ) . |
24 | However , whilst the decided cases may offer some guidance as to the general approach , their precedent value is limited because each case turns on its own circumstances . |
25 | Sunderland failed in its bid to win City Challenge cash last year when NorthEast rivals Newcastle and Middlesbrough were successful . |
26 | WHEN walking across the upland fells of Britain , it is not uncommon to find the whitened jawbone of a long-dead sheep , teeth rattling in its sockets . |
27 | These are things that we can measure ; we can make measurements of the welfare of an animal ; the term ‘ welfare ’ refers to its state , and its state in particular in respect of its attempts to cope with its environment . |
28 | Greene King failed in its attempt to take over Morland ; it now owns a 29.32% stake in the Thames Valley brewer . |
29 | ‘ The emphasis is upon the need for the board to include among its members persons with the skills and experience required to assess the risk of early release . |
30 | It also at various times gathered into its ambit important figures within general educational administration ( for example , Haddow , Sadler , Barker , Curzon , Mans bridge , and a host of college Heads , Registrars Provosts , and Vice Chancellors ) . |