Example sentences of "it [vb past] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it lowered its wings in threat posture , I took a last few shots before backing away , mindful of Valdemar 's account of the owl which left long , bloody furrows up the back of a photographer who pushed his luck too far ! |
| 2 | We followed the wall 160 ft , at which point it doubled its width and was continuing and we had no time to go further . |
| 3 | Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , is sinking deeper into the mire and now says it will restate its financial results for the year ended June 30 for the second time , and will amend its annual report on form 10K , because it now finds that it overstated its turnover . |
| 4 | BZW 's cheapest option — pulling out of Tokyo — is barely feasible , given that it got its TSE membership only last November after much huffing and puffing from Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister . |
| 5 | And it got its head trod in . |
| 6 | There will be a brief insight into the history of the company and how it got its name . |
| 7 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 8 | " I do n't know how it got its name , no , " replied the older boy smiling patiently , " but no doubt some book-reading bore is about to inform me . " |
| 9 | She could see where it got its name . |
| 10 | More than 120 copies were in the hands of various TV and broadcasting units by 4pm on Tuesday , the time The Sun says it got its copy . |
| 11 | In November 1978 , DATEC issued further proposals in which it affirmed its philosophy that colleges should have the maximum opportunity to develop courses which they consider to be most appropriate to educational , commercial and professional needs as they are able to identify and define them . |
| 12 | Taking as its basic premise the principle that courses of higher education should be made available to all those able and willing to benefit from them , it affirmed its belief that the pool of ability , especially among girls , who at that time were grossly under-represented in higher education , was sufficiently deep to warrant an expansion in the numbers of full-time and sandwich students in higher education in England , Scotland and Wales from 216,000 in 1962–3 to 390,000 in 1973–4 and 560,000 in 1980–1 . |
| 13 | April 1992 saw the car completed and it passed its MOT with flying colours . |
| 14 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 15 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 16 | When announcing the increase in such benefits for 1981 , it disclosed its intention to increase invalidity benefit by 5 per cent less than the rise in prices . |
| 17 | Three-legged , it wagged its tail but did not follow them , perhaps not wishing to intrude . |
| 18 | However closely it cultivated its links with the labour movement , the UDC was not simply a device for maintaining Labour politics during the wartime political truce or for bringing individual ex-Liberals into the labour movement . |
| 19 | Early in December it channelled its supporters ' energies into a mass petition calling for the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Northern Ireland , obtaining the signatures of nearly half the population of the city . |
| 20 | A caricature of a dog was sitting on the lawn in front of one of the town houses as he passed , and it laid its head on its paws and looked at him with dark eyes . |
| 21 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 22 | It announced its existence in a group interview with the news magazine Semana . |
| 23 | As a result , it announced its intention to cease recognition of the polytechnic 's courses after the 1979–80 academic year unless substantial improvements were made . |
| 24 | On the same day that it announced its intention to apply for the judicial review , Greenpeace members attempted to block the company 's discharge pipes , provoking an injunction banning them from trespassing further on the company 's property . |
| 25 | A slow down in the bathroom business — identified by MB when it announced its results last week — affected City confidence in Caradon . |
| 26 | The history of the nationalities of the former Russian empire is complex , and here only a few details can be given to illustrate how doctrine was radically reshaped by events until in content , if not in form , it became its opposite . |
| 27 | Its courtship of Mitel ended in tears last year when it sold its stake in the Canadian company at a loss of £120m ( $120m ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I sold my soul to rock'n'roll before it sold its soul to the major multi-nationals . ’ |
| 29 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
| 30 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |