Example sentences of "it [vb past] its [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The British foreign office also showed itself more forward-looking than almost any other in the adoption of the typewriter : it appointed its first typist in 1889 and had eight by 1900 .
2 Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history .
3 It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train .
4 It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon .
5 As expected , AST formally announced its Manhattan SMP multi-processor PC' ( UX No 398 , 377 ) — it made its first appearance at CeBit in Hannover this spring .
6 It made its first flight in July , shortly after this photo was taken .
7 it made its last appearance at Watkins Glen — a reluctant Andretti again at the wheel — and failed to shine even in the wet conditions of practice .
8 Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 .
9 A bootstrap operation , it attracted its first venture capital in August of 1990 , a $1.2m investment from Sunwestern Investment Group .
10 Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter .
11 The aircraft was seen by a reliable observer as it initiated its first overshoot ; within two minutes he had telephoned saying that the aircraft was only 50m above the ground and heading south .
12 Stuart Taylor was lucky enough to be on RF325 as it took its last bow .
13 The auction opened with Daniel Chodowiecki 's watercolour ‘ Frederick II on horseback ’ of 1777 , which went under the hammer at DM78,000 ( £31,200 ; $49,920 ) , more than double its estimate ; it reached its first highpoint with Max Liebermann 's ‘ Garden on the Wannsee ’ of 1916 , for which a north German collector paid DM480,000 ( £192,000 ; $307,200 ) .
14 It 's circulation was peaking as it reached its fiftieth edition .
15 started manufacturing extruded products in 1964 , with the current Omega brand being launched in 1976. exports business grew rapidly through to 1988 when it won its first Queen 's Award for Export .
16 It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) .
17 Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
18 Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics .
19 Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , said it closed its third round of financing last week , an exercise that got started in January .
20 It held its first meeting on Dec. 23 , and unanimously chose Chief Ernest Adegunle Shonekan , a lawyer and prominent industrialist , as its chair and effectively acting Prime Minister .
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