Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] its [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doug McGilvray , Weldex 's managing director , said that at a stroke , the move had removed its biggest competitor in Scotland and doubled its own crane-hire fleet . |
| 2 | Later that year the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Magazine quoted these results in full and announced its own competition : |
| 3 | And made its own , especially one |
| 4 | In some places the Afro-Caribbean community has composed Mass settings and produced its own hymn books . |
| 5 | Not to be outdone , Pentos also took the plunge and produced its own 48-page , fully illustrated catalogue for all its shops ( last year it took the PN catalogue . |
| 6 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 7 | The company has turned its nose up at EISA as unnecessary and used its own high-speed local bus . |
| 8 | ‘ His hip had come out of its socket and found its own socket in the muscle . |
| 9 | But the fact that each group came into existence in its own time and for its own reasons , and found its own identity and direction , means that we need have no fear about it losing its autonomy vis-à-vis the other groups . |
| 10 | This period of enforced idleness , however , was not wasted , as Stirling 's ever-fertile brain analysed the progress of the war in the Middle East and drew its own conclusions . |
| 11 | The various books of the resulting work , entitled A Treatise on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity , justified the Elizabethan church as a via media between the extremes of Roman Catholicism and radical Puritanism , and defended its own particular ceremonial style and form of government . |
| 12 | The Cuban government found itself unable to accept this counter-proposal and withdrew its own offer . |
| 13 | Parliament was an assembly over which the clergy had no theoretical control , however much weight they might wield within it in practice ; convocation was a provincial — not a national assembly , and , though often summoned on the king 's nod , it met by , and laid down , its own procedures and determined its own composition . |
| 14 | At first it was included with other Shorthorns in the Coates herdbook from its inception in 1822 , but in 1896 the Lincoln became separate and established its own Lincoln Red herdbook . |
| 15 | In that brief time , a fly may dart in and lay its own egg on it . |
| 16 | I did n't quite belong in the Jewish dorf-just as well , because horsemen came through more than once and left blood and burnt timbers behind them — and did n't quite belong in the hamlet where my father 's people lived — maybe just as well also , because the crucifixes on their walls did n't save them when the cholera came and brought its own kind of pogrom . |
| 17 | The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms . |
| 18 | The jam factory was next to the station and had its own sidings . |
| 19 | Although Washington promptly distanced itself from his speech , and publicized its own high valuation of relations with Britain , George Ball , deputy to the US secretary of state , privately noted that it was time the British gave up their " not very healthy " illusions concerning the empire , the deterrent and the relationship with the United States . |
| 20 | Education traditionally has taught , trained and certificated its own through in-house courses and Higher Education institutions and teachers ' routes to personal and professional development have remained within the educational sphere . |
| 21 | Westminster City Council has taken the initiative and published its own code of practice for caterers on the implications of the Food Safety Act 1990 . |
| 22 | The Company laid a main and supplied its own cottages from the tanks at Wolverton c1888 . |
| 23 | It managed very few semi-natural woodlands and understood them very little , and had routinely fertilised , ploughed and drained its own forest soils so that long-term changes such as those feared on the continent would be masked by its own management . |
| 24 | Fiji can learn from the mistakes of so-called developed countries and set its own standards and policies . ’ |
| 25 | Fiji can learn from the mistakes of so-called developed countries and set its own standards and policies . ’ |
| 26 | The pound also shook off the jitters and held its own against the mark and the dollar . |
| 27 | The new Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) was formally inaugurated at a joint convention in February 1990 [ see pp. 37187-88 ; 37247-48 ] , and held its own first convention in May [ see pp. 37456-57 ] . |
| 28 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |