Example sentences of "and it [verb] its [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
2 | It was still a walled city , the walls were all virtually intact , the castle was a bit ruinous , but it was there , and it had its four main gates , erm East Gate on the important London Road going out past Magdalen and over Magdalen Bridge , erm the North Gate here , the Westgate by the Castle , and then still existing then but not in your map if you can find it , the South Gate across the road , just at the bottom of Christchurch , can you find Christchurch on your map ? erm Now , perhaps you can that there 's a difference in Christchurch on your map with this one . |
3 | The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized . |
4 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
5 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
6 | Robert Luterell , younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Luterell , who commissioned the famous Luterell Psalter , gave his house called ‘ the Gannoc ’ on St. Peter 's Street for use as a school , and it had its own chapel of St. Mary . |
7 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
8 | Primarily peasant guerilla fighters , people who were fighting in the Red Army , and it draws its mass support , the Party members draw their mass support , er from the peasants in the areas where they establish their authority . |
9 | A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators . |
10 | And it reckons its enhanced JetDirect technology , which enables the new printers to work concurrently with personal computers , Macs , Unix workstations and a variety of networks is an important step towards this goal . |
11 | The bay harbours two of the country 's five largest ports , Baltimore and Norfolk , and it has its own occasionally sighted , neo-mythic monster , ‘ Chessie ’ . |
12 | It has strong emigrant communities in South Africa and Venezuela , and it has its own regional autonomy to balance against the influences of central government in Lisbon . |
13 | Today likewise Piraeus ' importance makes it much more than a mere annex of Athens and it has its own political traditions , regularly voting communist . |
14 | But South America has its own great grasslands , and it evolved its own separate groups of large herbivores to exploit the resource . |
15 | But from the peace of your Munro , all such regrets at its passing as a place of tranquillity vanish and it unveils its wilder delights at the east to those who come by foot and not by a knob-head 's speed boat . |