Example sentences of "[vb pp] its [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 2 | In its role as the chief purveyor of propaganda and agitation , the press had shifted its accent at the start of NEP . |
| 3 | Political propaganda on the part of the American Relief Administration , by far the longest foreign source of aid , warped its judgement at the time , and the subsequent polarization of Russian-American relations has not improved the objectivity of later scholarly accounts of the Famine as seen through American eyes . |
| 4 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 5 | In the next generation , Odo and Robert followed suit , receiving Charles 's favour in the form of lands that in fact belonged to the church of Rheims ( the see 's continuing vacancy since Ebbo 's second departure in 841 had left its property at the king 's disposal ) . |
| 6 | Cycle triumph : The bicycle voted Best Bike of 1993 at the Harrogate Cycle Fair has taken its place at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum , Cultra , alongside some of its illustrious predecessors . |
| 7 | The Ulster human rights group , the Committee on the Administration of Justice , has expressed its disappointment at the decision . |
| 8 | The Oxford University Student 's Union has expressed its disappointment at the Government 's action on the Student Loans Bill in the Commons last night . |