Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Behind the horses , the curricle , its hood up against the piercing March wind and the oncoming rain , shifted on the cobbles , and settled again . |
| 32 | He had taken the precaution of oiling its mechanism along with the door hinges earlier that day , so as to avoid any noise that would alert the occupant of the room . |
| 33 | Through the mist he could see the vague outlines of the priory church and followed its outline round to the ruined oak stump where Lady Eleanor had received her mysterious messages . |
| 34 | The axe bludgeoned its life out through the holes in its skull . |
| 35 | The merlin establishes its territory up in the heather-covered hill areas , and searches out suitable hooded crows ' nests from the year before which it will appropriate for its own brood . |
| 36 | In a similar way , the circumstance that the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages formed its hierarchy out of the best brains in the land , regardless of their estate , birth or fortune , was one of the principal means of consolidating ecclesiastical rule and suppressing the laity . |
| 37 | As the big jetliner continued its turn back to the airport , Duncan applied some power back to the left engine . |
| 38 | What we have in mind is instead a much smaller team which could give a national focus to the work of local or regional money management education associations , help to harmonise educational material with the needs of school curricula , spot gaps in research knowledge and seek ways of filling these , and follow its concern through into the adult world — tackling the credit information gap from both sides , by looking for ways both to spread knowledge ( for instance through the media , not forgetting — see chapter 3 — those catching the attention of women ) and to make credit use itself easier to understand . |
| 39 | We all know , though , how a singing bird makes us feel and we can imagine how the bird feels as it throws its song out into the air . |
| 40 | Properly discounting the three notorious rescue cases , we can cite its performance along with the Spanish , American , French and Italian examples as evidence to bear out the theoretical expectation that industrial co-operatives should perform at least as well as conventionally organised businesses ; and that the extra that Co-operation has to offer as an ingredient necessary to full success , a potential in motivation , is indeed available to help industrial co-operatives out-perform conventional businesses . |
| 41 | For some reason , shortly after the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist took its number out of the phone book , she started to forget to lisp . |
| 42 | MOTORISTS were made late for work yesterday by a llama which wandered from its farm on to the A22 at Forest Row , Sussex . |
| 43 | The foal cringes , lowering its shoulders , extending its neck , and raising its muzzle up to the other horse . |
| 44 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 45 | She is one of the successful new generation of country artists brave enough to stretch the genre , and talented enough to take its audience along for the ride . |
| 46 | AIS sees Skymaster as an important way of getting its information over to the public in an efficient , quickly updated fashion that is easily accessed . |
| 47 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 48 | The regiment traces its history back to the Siege of Carroburg in 1865 , when it mounted a valiant and wholly successful defence of the walls in the face of a huge army led by the Count of Middenland . |
| 49 | Just as a wild leopard would store its prey out of the reach of scavengers and rival predators high in the branches of a tree , Harriet took her victim on to the roof out of Elie 's reach . |
| 50 | The charge means that the Board is entitled to recover the shortfall on its expenditure out of the property that has been recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings . |
| 51 | A bad weather front feeling its way over from the west like a nasty white octopus in the blue summer sky . |
| 52 | Also it would involve computer firms in expensive re-designs. and at least part of this expense would find its way through to the end user . |
| 53 | When washing your hair , work a blob of shampoo about the size of a ten pence piece into the roots , and let the lather work its way through to the ends . |
| 54 | As the smoke from the fire gently filters upwards through the drying malted barley , the peat gently imparts its distinctive aroma , which will in time find its way through to the finished malt whisky . |
| 55 | A presence forcing its way through from the Other Side . |
| 56 | For most of us , the turkey is as traditional as mince pies , but the story of how it found its way on to the Christmas table is an interesting one . |
| 57 | There are a handful of noticeably small start-ups wrestling with the key interoperability issues facing Unix as it elbows its way on to the desktop . |
| 58 | Praxsys is one of a handful of noticeably small start-ups wrestling with the key interoperability issue facing Unix as it elbows its way on to the desktop . |
| 59 | By the time the evaluation began all the stock purchased under the project had found its way on to the shelves . |
| 60 | Despite the opportunities for patronage and profit which resulted from the statute , what we need to note here is the existence of an explicit legal restriction on endowments for the church , a limitation which found its way on to the statute books and into the consciousness , therefore , of lawyers and members of parliament for the rest of the Middle Ages . |