Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the Depression the NUAW clung on to its existence by retaining the rump of its membership — no more than 25000 — in its East Anglian stronghold . |
| 2 | They married with a view to inheritance , attended the local Protestant church and contributed handsomely to its building programme . |
| 3 | He said that what the Faculty was proposing was really none of the IoT 's business and he objected strongly to its interference . |
| 4 | EDINBURGH 's Queen Margaret College moved closer to its aim of becoming the city 's fourth university yesterday , as it won the right to run post-graduate courses , writes Douglas Fraser . |
| 5 | The body flopped on to its back , nudging trustingly against Dougal 's legs . |
| 6 | However , it may also be unable to reap the benefits by charging the community for the advantages gained by improved amenities installed close to its factory ( eg an approach road ) , which benefit local people . |
| 7 | In formulating the diet I paid particular attention to moisture , realizing that , after all , the inclusion of fat in our daily diet added considerably to its palatability . |
| 8 | Flack was crushed into a corner , gesticulating , a beetle turned on to its back . |
| 9 | Can you imagine how the owner of a fine chesterfield sofa must have felt to see it thus frogmarched away to its doom under the lashing rain ? |
| 10 | As the long-running show begins its final series tonight , TODAY had decided to send out a reconnaissance party to see how the real Nouvion — the name was chosen by in Nouvion writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft sticking a pin into a map of France — lived up to its TV image . |
| 11 | The second goal came on 6l minutes ; the Newcastle defence ; the worst in the entire league lived up to its reputation as John Durnin raced through to score . |
| 12 | The team certainly lived up to its reputation as it whipped first place from under the noses of the Golden Wonder team at the end of the last game . |
| 13 | In 1958 at the Club 's Golden Jubilee celebrations , Charles Luker recalled his early years when the rough lived up to its name and when after each game very golf club head was well rubbed down with emery cloth to prevent it rusting . |
| 14 | The special dining car lived up to its name with a blue and red carpet , big blue padded leather chairs , polished wood gleaming in the lights and glass panels engraved with birds . |
| 15 | On full dirt through a Marshall Valvestate combo the Mad Axe lived up to its name and any kind of rock tone proved possible . |
| 16 | The Herald of Free Enterprise , which lived up to its name and capsized ; 190 people were killed , thanks to sloppiness in P & O ‘ from top to bottom ’ ; at the top , Jeffrey Stirling , chairman of P & O , was given a peerage . |
| 17 | The Skil lived up to its name . |
| 18 | All his old friends seemed pleased to see me , and the place lived up to its name . |
| 19 | Indeed , even cases of rape in the News of the World was a serious underestimate for this popular Sunday lived up to its name and rape cases were reported from all pans of the globe . |
| 20 | If it lived up to its name , she thought , it should stick out like a sore thumb among the warm , yellowish stone of the other buildings . |
| 21 | The La Platense venture never lived up to its promise and was taken over in its entirety by the Dennys and Hendersons in 1885–6 . |
| 22 | It was a bad start to the morning , and the rest of the day lived up to its promise . |
| 23 | The Clinton camp had promised the Election Watch '92 party would be like no political rally ever seen and it lived up to its billing . |
| 24 | After a bruising fight for market share , British Satellite Broadcasting sold out to its rival , Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Broadcasting . |
| 25 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 26 | The bucket tilted and then , curiously slowly , fell on to its side , six inches away from the open dresser cupboard and the piles of old newspapers Emmie had tumbled out when she made the firelighters . |
| 27 | The remaining bare shell is then cut up and sent off to its grave in the industry 's melting pot . |
| 28 | Fitzormonde stepped away and the bear went back to its meal , shuffling its food into a dirty untidy pile as if it suspected Fitzormonde would like to take it away . |
| 29 | But then it turned round towards the open stable door and went back to its place in the darkness , |
| 30 | The other hand clutched tightly to its robe hanging in furls , as if to beat at its hidden heart . |