Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbour commissioner Frank Sluman said : ‘ The sea is a cruel master and it takes its toll over the years . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , the authorities made no move against the organization during the Second World War and it continued its activities unmolested . |
| 3 | It has beautiful purple and green plumage , but its voice is strident and it threshes its wings frantically overhead when in the presence of any other murder victim , crying ‘ Ishkoonee ! ’ |
| 4 | Whether or not the biographer was right , it is true that once you can exclaim ‘ Abba , Father ! ’ , joy is the accompanying fruit of the Spirit and it sheds its radiance over life and death . |
| 5 | A caricature of a dog was sitting on the lawn in front of one of the town houses as he passed , and it laid its head on its paws and looked at him with dark eyes . |
| 6 | Dieting without exercise also forces the body to manage on less oxygen , and it reduces its oxygen intake even further when it has to take energy , not from food , but from the body itself . |
| 7 | And it got its head trod in . |
| 8 | The new two-part report in February 1983 avoided direct reference to the Committee constitution that had so bedevilled the 1982 Extraordinary General Meeting , and it restricted its recommendation to clubhouse alterations , and to raising finance by a new bond issue which simultaneously meant redeeming the foundation bonds . |
| 9 | She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified … |
| 10 | No it 's er it came today and it had its balance on its ticket and I 've rung them up and er |
| 11 | April 1992 saw the car completed and it passed its MOT with flying colours . |
| 12 | Penal control , on the other hand , ‘ prohibits certain conduct , and it enforces its prohibitions with punishment ’ . |
| 13 | One called Ilex macrocarpa , and I am not surprised it is n't on offer in the trade , has the biggest berries of all , but they are jet black and it loses its leaves in winter . |
| 14 | The national state , as it took shape in Western Europe , controlled a well-defined , continuous territory ; it was relatively centralized ; it was clearly differentiated from other organizations ; and it reinforced its claims by gradually acquiring a monopoly of the means of physical coercion within its territory . |
| 15 | Right it pinched its place and it pinched its charge , it displaced it it pinched it out of its nice cosy relationship |
| 16 | Mathematics is the perfect language for this sort of exercise and it shows its power by penetrating beyond the every-day dialectic of wave and particle to the synthesis of a quantum field . |
| 17 | It was called Il Risorgimento , the ‘ the reawakening ’ , and it gave its name almost as a battlecry to the forces of unification . |
| 18 | The Conservative Party lost ground , its vote falling from 23.7 per cent to 21.8 per cent , and it lost its control of the Oslo municipal council to an alliance of Labour and Socialist Left . |
| 19 | ‘ The workforce thus comes to view employment in the firm as a permanent career , and it sees its future as intimately tied up with the fate of the enterprise ’ ( Gallie 1978 , 18 ) . |
| 20 | The belief that Worrell should have been appointed was extremely strong throughout the Caribbean , and it found its expression through C.L.R. James , then editor of the Trinidad newspaper The Nation . |
| 21 | The system of dating by the regnal year was afterwards adopted by a variety of authorities including bishops , popes and kings , and it found its way into literary narratives as well as official documents . |
| 22 | ASLEF started life as a breakaway from the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in the 1880s and it retained its autonomy during the process of amalgamations that led to the formation of the NUR . |
| 23 | The Metropolitan Line grew fast in the 1860S and 1870S , the District Line joined it and it spread its branches out into the open countryside to the north-west of London . |
| 24 | A market-based scheme of that sort has its attractions ; and it has its problems , too . |
| 25 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 26 | Bragg slapped the off-side horse on the rump , and it shook its head as if in greeting . |
| 27 | yeah , and it cuts its eye at you and then you go to get it , it goes I 'll jump , I 'll bloody jump . |
| 28 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 29 | Not only did the WEA have providing rights and responsibilities in negotiations with the Board of Education and LEAs but it enhanced its position and status in seeking funds from philanthropic bodies to support pioneering , experimental schemes for the provision of adult education , particularly in rural areas . |
| 30 | ‘ I know a life like that makes a good story but it takes its toll on the person . |