Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 2 | The US claimed its battleship the Maddox , had been attacked . |
| 3 | Ford 's chief designer , George W. Walker ( whose salary of $200,000 was perhaps the explanation why General Motors paid its president the curious figure of $201,000 ) , was dubbed ‘ the Benvenuto Cellini of Chrome ’ . |
| 4 | The ball sailed over the Stockade , he said , and the crowd 's sigh followed its arc the whole way . |
| 5 | Lord Byron and Wagner are among those who found it irresistible and Hans Christian Anderson named its bay the ‘ Bay of Fairy Tales ’ . |
| 6 | One new church in America called its sanctuary The Living Room , so keen was it to remain normal . |
| 7 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
| 8 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 9 | What 's for sure is it will be a Mega Drama , the day I discover my man has been playing around , because I believe in fidelity and learned its importance the hard way . |
| 10 | Unix Labs , by virtue of its position as Unix mama , wanted to be first , and did its pitch the week before last with X/Open Co Ltd explaining the fast track process and Hewlett-Packard observing . |
| 11 | Unix Systems Labs , by virtue of its position as Unix mama , wanted to be first , and did its pitch the week before last with X/Open Co Ltd explaining the fast track process and HP observing . |
| 12 | There thus remained only one explanation consistent with logic and the sooner he tested its validity the calmer he would feel . |