Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers had been plotting a map , in changing colours , to show how the contras were fading out of Nicaragua ; suddenly it reversed its trend , and they were back . |
| 2 | Æthelred 's henchmen were perhaps able to stifle or ignore discontent for much of the time , but even so it had its price . |
| 3 | So it bared its fangs and charged . |
| 4 | Sheila Kitzinger , childbirth guru , talks abut the ‘ functional ’ pain of labour as though somehow it reduced its intensity . |
| 5 | Somehow it found its way into the hands of a government minister , and he got in touch with us . ’ |
| 6 | Already it had its father 's athletic limbs . |
| 7 | Already it had its place in local balladry . |
| 8 | Moreover it recognizes its duty to make such publications accessible to the public at large , and not to restrict access on any grounds other than legal . |
| 9 | Possibly it has its origins in the ‘ white noise ’ techniques which the Brits , ever the innovators , pioneered in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ( it has always seemed unjust that what was deplored then as a human rights abuse was later marketed under the brand name of acid house ) . |
| 10 | In short , what this has to do with modern poetry is very clear ; what it has to do with modern criticism is not clear at all , since that criticism has , as we have seen , no vocabulary for dealing with it , and moves further and further from finding such a vocabulary , the more it takes its lead from linguisticians like Saussure and Jakobson . |
| 11 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 12 | Later it extended its operations to gaols outside London . |
| 13 | Inevitably it had its roots in the previous reign and some of Edward IV 's actions made their contribution to events after his death . |
| 14 | Inevitably it had its roots in the previous reign and some of Edward IV 's actions made their contribution to events after his death . |
| 15 | Now it explained its relaxation . |
| 16 | Right now it serves its purpose , and increasing domestic production is going to increase world production , if there 's more supply , prices will fall , if everything else stays the same . |
| 17 | But even now it has its uses . |
| 18 | The cabinet had previously rested its authority on the support of the House ; now it derived its authority from the electors . |
| 19 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp is disappointed with its Sparc business , which is falling and impacted its earnings in at least the last quarter : but now it reckons its Pinnacle Sparc shot ( UX No 381 ) will save the day in the second half . |
| 20 | Often it makes its home in holes beneath a river bank or among rocks . |
| 21 | But today it closes its doors for the last time . |
| 22 | On reflection , the catering industry may well be much better off as a result of the Government 's proposals for a self-regulatory approach , but it all depends at the end of the day on how well it gets its act together , using Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment systems to identify the problem areas . |
| 23 | Each member of the audience would then have the task in the playback group of giving each item points , say on a scale from one to five , according to how well it achieved its aim . |
| 24 | You said , Masklin , that the plane went so fast it left its sound behind , and so high up there was blue all around it . |
| 25 | From here it makes its way down the coast — an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty — to the holiday resort of Cromer . |
| 26 | ‘ If the Mirror is a free and independent newspaper , why should n't it allow its space to be used to run copy critical of itself ? ’ |
| 27 | That it is now required reading for the French Establishment and for anybody involved in business or education is a measure of how successfully it fulfilled its task without compromising a reputation for unbiased reporting . |
| 28 | Slowly it makes its way down the tube . |
| 29 | Right it pinched its positives its electrons . |
| 30 | Right it pinched its place and it pinched its charge , it displaced it it pinched it out of its nice cosy relationship |