Example sentences of "and its [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole building was painted the frost white of cake icing and its shine echoed the gleam of the silent Thames behind . |
| 2 | This 1662 Prayer Book retained a number of highly contentious features , such as vestments , the sign of the cross in baptism , kneeling at communion , and the ring in marriage , and its preface dismissed the Puritan objections to such practices as ‘ either of dangerous consequence … or else of no consequence at all but utterly frivolous and vain' . |
| 3 | Worst of all , Christ Church Canterbury was burnt in 1011 and its archbishop murdered the following year after refusing to be ransomed . |
| 4 | The remote monitoring service was originally put on trial about a year ago in the retail sector — one of Granada 's biggest markets — and its success prompted the firm to adopt the scheme company-wide . |
| 5 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |
| 6 | It was the geomantic sign and the powerful bull guild which persuaded Bladud to found the first university in the world at Stamford , and its influence made the town prosperous and important in the Middle Ages . |
| 7 | Launched in 1986 , Wisk was the UK 's first heavy duty liquid detergent and its advent revolutionised the market . |
| 8 | It was nearing completion , and its completion embodied the hope of that now familiar wholeness so precious to its author : everything seemed to fit together , all experience could at last be integrated . |
| 9 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 10 | It had no heating , its paint was peeling , and its wallpaper obeyed the rule of the new canon 's parents that it does not show the dirt when it is dark . |
| 11 | But indirectly the growing public awareness of science and its potential shaped the professionals ' world by exposing it to the rough and tumble of political life . |