Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The cat opened one eye cautiously , saw that it was true and sprang onto Mildred 's shoulder where it rubbed its head gratefully against her hair .
2 To straddle the hurdle between its Unix commitments , where it derives its revenues , and NT , Sequent last week reorganised its management to give it more strategic depth .
3 When the hopped wort has been cooled it is run to fermenting vessels where it meets its destiny with yeast .
4 To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input .
5 RETURNED to London after too long an absence , Le Cirque Imaginaire is back until 6 March in the Riverside Studios where it made its UK debut many years ago .
6 The company has now started flying from Gatwick , and , to help to stimulate demand for the Gatwick operation , Airtours has become a regular advertiser in the South East , particularly on the Underground , where it promotes its holidays to the price-conscious sun seeker .
7 Although it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s , cruising had begun in about 1844 when P & O's cruise through the Mediterranean was described by the writer William Makepeace Thackeray , and Mark Twain wrote about a cruise of 1868 from New York to the Mediterranean in his book Innocents Abroad .
8 There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century .
9 Roland D-110 synthesiser module ‘ A very good source of sounds for the money , although it has its limitations .
10 Grumble as they might about the Masai 's unbudging attachment to their traditional ways , many administrators , particularly in the later years , came to see that it had its advantages .
11 This was part of his belief that poetic composition was not an activity that could be consciously controlled , that it had its roots far down in the unconscious .
12 It is not without significance that it had its source in a campaign which effectively combined Cobdenite principles of free trade with a ‘ bellicose philanthropy ’ worthy of the most self-righteous of Victorian imperialists .
13 Unfortunately for the Patent Office , the advertising agency failed to ensure that it had its facts right — and the Patent Office did not check the agency 's new advertisement .
14 Then we went to a lake with wooded and marshy shores where we saw several ‘ new ’ birds : a crane flew past , looking like a grey heron except that it carried its neck outstretched in flight instead of ‘ folded back ’ .
15 Apart from the fact that it divested its foundry business some four years ago — and has no intention of getting back into that game — Motorola can supply 88000 parts at a $850 apiece .
16 On the same day that it announced its intention to apply for the judicial review , Greenpeace members attempted to block the company 's discharge pipes , provoking an injunction banning them from trespassing further on the company 's property .
17 In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK .
18 The apothecary 's rose grows at Provins in France and has the property that it keeps its perfume even when the petals have been dried and powdered , thus making it of great use to add to medicinal compounds and ensuring that they are pleasant and soothing .
19 The art deco style brasserie attracts discerning customers from the Bourse stock exchange at lunchtime and theatregoers in the evening who ensure that it keeps its standards high .
20 Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts .
21 A sport , like a new spouse , can be so infatuated with its glamourous partner that it loses its head .
22 ‘ Assessment is not in question ; it is when it becomes an automatic and unvaried process that it loses its value both for teacher and pupil . ’
23 The only comprehensive attempt to measure venereal infection , which plainly had a strong connection with some kinds of extra-marital sex , revealed little except that in Prussia , not unexpectedly , it was much higher in the megalopolis Berlin than in any other province ( tending normally to diminish with the size of cities and villages ) , and that it reached its maximum in towns with ports , garrisons and institutes of higher education , i.e. with heavy concentrations of unmarried young men away from their homes .
24 The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts .
25 Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , is sinking deeper into the mire and now says it will restate its financial results for the year ended June 30 for the second time , and will amend its annual report on form 10K , because it now finds that it overstated its turnover .
26 Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines .
27 What we know of the family shows that it enjoyed its privileges to the full , and shared a positive and happy lifestyle , without hardship , yet without vaunted excess — a balanced lifestyle , despite his indispositions .
28 Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening .
29 The first mention of belted Scottish cattle is dated to about 1790 but there is a theory that it received its belt originally from imported Dutch Lakenvelder cattle in the seventeenth century , a breed which possibly also contributed to the now extinct Sheeted Somerset .
30 Simply apply lateral cyclic and tail rotor commands to bank and turn the model so that it presents its side view to the direction of travel .
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