Example sentences of "it [vb past] its [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Ship slowed its fall and drifted down across the scrublands until it met its own shadow . |
| 4 | I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This small Privy Council had its own staff and letter-book ; and later , in 1556 , it acquired its own seal . |
| 7 | As it crossed its own lines , a plane suddenly dived on it out of the early morning sun . |
| 8 | The saw stuck when it reached its own depth , but he kept on trying . |
| 9 | The monastery rebuilt the castle keep on Piel Island , whence it exported its own wool in ships built in its own dockyard there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was different from England : it had its own systems of law and education , its own church , currency , literature , music . |
| 14 | By 1907 it had its own herdbook and numbered about 35,000 . |
| 15 | He 'd got some internal engine — it drove him , it had its own reasons , it propelled him and off he went . |
| 16 | It had its own liturgy and Mass , both of which incorporated distinctly Eastern , non-Roman elements . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It had its own inquiry desk , and a girl took me to Lennis at once . |
| 19 | But Fordism — it is argued — was established in the UK and , moreover , it had its own geography . |
| 20 | It had its own brickworks , cloth mill and farms , and was largely self-sufficient . |
| 21 | The new government decided it wanted its own paper and so bought the Mail , which became a bi-weekly in 1967 and went daily in 1969 . |