Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But you had to win it twice before it became your own property . |
| 3 | It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head . |
| 4 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |
| 5 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
| 6 | The Ship slowed its fall and drifted down across the scrublands until it met its own shadow . |
| 7 | Fergie says : ‘ Finally something did happen , but it soon became clear that the Queen was just not capable of getting involved in emotional , personal problems — even though it involved her own flesh and blood . ’ |
| 8 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 9 | Before it had a chance to reach Emily 's neat pairing , however , it caught his own second bowl a solid crack , sending both to join the first , out of play . |
| 10 | The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot . |
| 11 | The wife said in evidence that she knew the charge was a security but did not realise it affected her own share in the house . |
| 12 | It affected his own supplies , as well as the carriage of news , and forced him to make secondary plans , among other things , for the sale of his new sugar crop . |
| 13 | I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave . |
| 14 | It renewed my own sense of meaning . |
| 15 | In this sense , the description of themselves as ‘ ordinary ’ was an identity which simultaneously expressed two things : it indicated their own class position , between the extraordinary highly placed and the extraordinarily lowly placed , and at the same time , by its yearning to transcend class identity , it expressed the tensions of that position . |
| 16 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 17 | A distinguished Commission on Electoral Reform set up under the auspices of the Hansard Society published in 1976 a Report in which it included its own proposals for a new electoral system . |
| 18 | Peter followed , thinking how such behaviour would have infuriated his mother , and how it strengthened his own position . |
| 19 | This small Privy Council had its own staff and letter-book ; and later , in 1556 , it acquired its own seal . |
| 20 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 21 | The saw stuck when it reached its own depth , but he kept on trying . |
| 22 | The monastery rebuilt the castle keep on Piel Island , whence it exported its own wool in ships built in its own dockyard there . |
| 23 | Though advertising revenue freed the press from direct political control , it introduced its own form of constraints on an expanding press in the 20th century . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 26 | It was different from England : it had its own systems of law and education , its own church , currency , literature , music . |
| 27 | By 1907 it had its own herdbook and numbered about 35,000 . |
| 28 | He 'd got some internal engine — it drove him , it had its own reasons , it propelled him and off he went . |
| 29 | It had its own liturgy and Mass , both of which incorporated distinctly Eastern , non-Roman elements . |
| 30 | And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them . |