Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | After using it , I asked about its accuracy , as the readings bore no resemblance to that of the chemical test kit . |
| 2 | I peer through its little ambush at the scene below . |
| 3 | Below the 102/2 comes the 101/2 ( £495 , reviewed by John Borwick last September ) and above the 104/2 lie the 105/3 ( £1,995 ) and 107/2 ( £3,195 ) which I reviewed in its original form in August 1988 . |
| 4 | I report on its progress ( or lack of it ) , that is all . |
| 5 | ‘ It is like a house I dreamed of once , where I wandered through its rooms for an eternity . ’ |
| 6 | Beside her meagre meal Portia carried a slim black zip-up file case and a copy of the Financial Times which I recognised by its distinctive colour . |
| 7 | The day was moving on faster than I was now and a heat haze shimmered over the Tarn as I came to its banks to sit and eat my lunch . |
| 8 | I joined the Labour Party because I believed in its values . ’ |
| 9 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 10 | My former wife disliked not only the taste of it herself but refused to come near me if I succumbed to its temptation . ’ |
| 11 | Run by the redoubtable Cheryl , the wonderful Aultnamain ( along with the Cluanie Inn , the only pub I know with its name on even the most basic Highland road map ) is a Sunday mecca for musos and the merely thirsty from all around . |
| 12 | May I quote in its entirety the sentence from which you extracted your sub-title : ‘ In order , on the one hand , to make use of the catalogue easier , and on the other , to keep certain material confidential to protect the artist 's name , image and market every work is accompanied by a caption which gives only the principal facts from the archival entries ’ This seems to me to be quite clear and explanatory of common practice in the writing of captions . |
| 13 | Another room I remember for its verve was all shiny dark green lacquered walls , gilded carpet and trompe l'oeil painted walls which looked like real draperies : a theatrical , stunning experience . |
| 14 | The following day I sent him the stamps and a couple of days later I received in the post not the book but a cheque for slightly less than the value of the book and postage combined , together with the following note , which I reproduce in its entirety : ‘ Herewith a cheque for £20 . |
| 15 | She drew the word out , so that I heard in its simple syllable all the pain and hurt of the drug . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I support this club , as do my six-year-old and 12-year-old sons , and I believe in its future . |
| 17 | It was stunned I suppose from its ordeal . |
| 18 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |
| 19 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 20 | I thought of its maker ; Lawrence the animal ; Lawrence the master craftsman ; such an amalgam , so potent ; take away the magic of hand and eye — no replica of the key ; take away the brute — no key to replicate , for only a brute could have done to Holy Harding what Lawrence did to Holy Harding — Holy Harding , school monitor , altar boy , server in the Cathedral of ix … |
| 21 | However , to go on justifying ends by further ends will involve me in an infinite regress unless I arrive at a terminus in something that I do for its own sake . |
| 22 | I think to its detriment , it has been very white and it has been very historically specific , but the more I hear about what women are doing in Africa and India I think that the visions are very similar even though the words sometimes are different . |
| 23 | It was proof of a homosexual community and it was through porn that I learned of its existence . ' |
| 24 | He also taught us music and it was through him that I learned of its expressive nature . |
| 25 | I emerged from its jaws a short time later , however , as I could n't bear the heat — My water wave fell down ! ’ |
| 26 | I quote from its conclusion : In sum there are certain defining characteristics of the school which emerge from our study . |
| 27 | I quote from its fact-sheet : ‘ The ultimate aim is to provide alternative methods for use in toxicity testing and in drug development , which will be so relevant and reliable that no animal testing will be necessary. , |
| 28 | I said to its owner oh I said another one as daft as ours , she said yes |
| 29 | I come to its edge and see it cool amongst the rushes , a place of little fish and soft green grass . |
| 30 | So when I walked in here and caught sight of the painting on your wall , naturally I responded to its presence ! ’ |