Example sentences of "it [vb past] its [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 2 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 3 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One theatre management which gave concessionary tickets , for instance , had never thought about the problems it caused its older customers by refusing advance booking and forcing them to queue for standby tickets . |
| 6 | We used to count as it played its seven colours |
| 7 | It confirmed its previous conclusions that average global temperatures would rise by between 0.2 and 0.5 degrees centigrade per decade , but decided that its previous " best guess " of a 0.3 degree rise might be a little too high , and that it could take until 2030 , rather than 2025 , for temperatures to rise by a full degree . |
| 8 | The new body has made it clear that , as far as possible , it intends to make public the reasoning behind all its major decisions , a decision influenced perhaps by the criticisms heaped upon the UGC for its unwillingness to make generally known the criteria upon which it based its 1981 decisions concerning cuts in university finances and student numbers . |
| 9 | Integrating Evode 's chemicals and plastics businesses with its own activities without dilution was on schedule , Laporte said yesterday as it unveiled its 1992 results . |
| 10 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 11 | It showed its needle-sharp teeth , and flared a furry ruff . |
| 12 | In a late decision , ARCO , Madrid 's annual contemporary art fair founded in 1982 , is returning to the Crystal Pavilion of the Casa de Campo , the hall where it enjoyed its greatest successes until it relocated to the new Juan Carlos I exhibition park near the airport north of the city a year ago . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The effect of the Polish Corridor was to send the East Prussian economy into an abrupt and dizzying nosedive as it lost its traditional markets for beef , grain , timber , fur , sugar-beet and alcohol . |
| 15 | Her face became twisted and not so pretty , and as her voice grew louder it lost its cultured tones and took on a snarling harshness . |
| 16 | The reason why the Free Church was concerned with the political activities of some of its members was that it saw its main purposes as evangelism and the servicing of church life . |
| 17 | Yeltsin confirmed that the 1961 treaty of friendship , co-operation and mutual assistance between North Korea and the Soviet Union was no longer effective , and that Russia would not provide financial or military support for the Pyongyang regime until such time as it improved its human rights record and adopted a more co-operative stance on the issue of nuclear inspection . |
| 18 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 19 | Indeed , initially favoured by the government to soak up excess cereal production , it was one which linked agricultural , manufacturing and commercial capitalism before it reached its proletarian consumers . |
| 20 | ‘ It had its rough times , very rough times , ’ remembered Miss Hayes , who never remarried . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was different from England : it had its own systems of law and education , its own church , currency , literature , music . |
| 23 | He 'd got some internal engine — it drove him , it had its own reasons , it propelled him and off he went . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It had its own brickworks , cloth mill and farms , and was largely self-sufficient . |
| 26 | It had its Arcadian examples — like all revolutions it dug into antiquity for help and respectability and dynamic metaphors — and Mary could be seen , that morning , in woods as sun-speckled as a thrush 's throat , as a shepherdess from the Hellenic world , a Grace from their pagan earth-suckled legends , but above all a spirit of the place . |
| 27 | But it had its positive aspects . |
| 28 | It had its sixty-four pages , some in smudgy Today -style colour , some in glossy heat-set colour , and most in good old black and white . |
| 29 | as if in reply , it unfolded its triangular wings . |
| 30 | Remarkably , in a short time , war-torn Britain had compulsory direction of labour , it re-established its crippled industries , depressed agriculture was revived , population was relocated ( 1 million schoolchildren were evacuated ) and industry steered . |