Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it can stop them seeing its underlying gender biases . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : This happy estray thus restored begs leave by me to acknowledge its lovely owner ! |
| 3 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 4 | The free Church Council , special emergencies apart , will therefore best serve the administration of its city or town , neither by meddlesome interference with it , nor by attempting to be represented as such in its political caucuses , or even on its administrative boards ; but by training men who , representing its views and coming under its influence , have at once the strength of character and the breadth of conception , which will cause them to secure its great ends … in the ordinary arena of public life . |
| 5 | Every one is different , everyone has its own pattern of possible rat runs and they take a great deal of er er |
| 6 | The performance of Castlereagh must attract the envy of many councils and ratepayers alike but I wonder how many of them realise its hidden costs ? |
| 7 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 8 | ‘ If she was wearing it there 's always the chance that someone recognised its true value , and it was stolen . ’ |
| 9 | To tackle the problem I needed more detailed information about the behaviour of the transformer-rectifier circuit , so I measured its d.c. output voltage at various currents and plotted the results on a graph ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 10 | But I owe its initial success to Eliot . |
| 11 | I hear its dear pleading , |
| 12 | On occasions I also added acrylic medium to the Quink to prevent any unnecessary bleeding of the line , although at times I enjoyed its non-waterproof qualities and allowed the ink to run . |
| 13 | I pulled its short legs hard . |
| 14 | By paying attention to this approach , I believe its central tenets can be adopted to provide a way forward for a more effective response to disruptive pupils . |
| 15 | The Labour Party has been making noises which suggest that things would be made easier for these schools , but I believe its welcome back would be a stab in the back for most of them . ’ |
| 16 | I believe its main ingredient was quinine and doubt if it can be obtained today . |
| 17 | Like Delta , Epsilon has a K-type spectrum , but I find its orange hue much less pronounced . |
| 18 | I watched its bemused leader struggling with economic concepts which he can barely grasp . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's my manuscript there , ’ he said hesitatingly ; ‘ naturally I feel its manifest imperfections . ’ |
| 20 | Whatever was on my shoulder now = was covered in hair ; I felt its coarse hairs prickle my neck … |
| 21 | The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words . |
| 22 | I understood its historical evolution , what I was looking for I think , and not an answer tonight , tomorrow may be a better day , was how does the area which you have defined , for example , now relate to journey to work patterns . |
| 23 | I think its financial problems stem from its youth and the fact that it has ploughed whatever money it has back into the charity . |
| 24 | Given that Callinicos ' book is difficult , and given the probability that despite the seriousness of its argument it is unlikely to be widely debated , I will firstly offer an interpretation of what I think its main themes are , and what they are not . |
| 25 | I think its some C D E or something like that |
| 26 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 27 | As chairman of the recently established development committee of this respected national association I enclose its first appeal brochure , in the hope that your Trustees will support our important apolitical and expanding remit . |
| 28 | I liked its academic slant . |
| 29 | I take its quantitative values with care . |
| 30 | It did not take me long because the big grin with which Yorkshire 's finest snooker player greeted me told its own story . |