Example sentences of "and 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 ? |