Example sentences of "it to its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McDonnell Douglas Corp has given up on its idea of floating its McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International Ltd Pick and Pick-under-Unix business on the London International Stock Exchange , and instead has agreed in principle to sell it to its management , who will retain effective day-to-day control , backed by a few blue-chip investors including Baring Capital Investors Ltd . |
| 2 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 3 | Its value for a compound represents the work that has to be done to return it to its elements in their standard states . |
| 4 | ‘ So it makes no sense at all for the bookseller to be buying and promoting a new title at , say , £14.99 when a book club has already offered it to its public at £8.99 — as happened last month . |
| 5 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 6 | Eventually I reach the road and follow it to its top , surprised by how close I was to the summit of the pass . |
| 7 | As Creator He began it all ; as all-powerful He sustains it all ; as judge of the world He will complete it all and bring it to its consummation . |
| 8 | The Court was surprised that those suggestions should have been made , and the Court owed it to its members and to all concerned to make it clear that no attempt had been made by anyone directly or indirectly , otherwise than in open court , to influence its decision . |
| 9 | The world 's biggest computer maker still needs this division as a supplier , but was failing to run it profitably ; so it is selling it to its managers and Clayton & Dubilier , leaving them to run it but still with a supply contract to IBM . |
| 10 | They brought out the launcher and fastened it to its base , and Diane spread out some plastic sheet for Jed and weighted it with the box of clays . |
| 11 | It took a hundred and fifty lorries to transport it to its home in Swindon . |
| 12 | Here Haydn was the principal pioneer , but Mozart expanded the form , pushing it to its limits within the Classical framework he inherited , and laying the foundation for the supreme achievements of Beethoven . |
| 13 | She knew she had misused her body in Sri Lanka , pushing it to its limits in the tropical heat with inadequate time for rest . |
| 14 | Well all the other things have been more urgent , so therefore , I have n't really pursued it to its limits . |
| 15 | ‘ Downhill until you feel a breeze , then follow it to its source . ’ |
| 16 | Trace it to its source and it might give us a rough idea of the way we came in — which might give us a rough idea of south , for further referee . |
| 17 | It was even more surprised that night when two hundred grim-faced nomes tracked it to its earth , lit a fire in the entrance , and speared it to death when it ran out , eyes streaming . |
| 18 | The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes . |
| 19 | He picked it up and ran out on to the platform hoping to return it to its owner . |
| 20 | I just want to return it to its owner . ’ |
| 21 | Marshalls were happily able to restore it to its owner after the race in perfect health . |
| 22 | Dogmatics thus has a critical function in relation to the present witness and preaching of the church , recalling it to its basis and assisting it to uncover and hear what it is called to say today . |
| 23 | I am sure that the Housing Executive will want to consider it and I shall personally bring it to its attention . |
| 24 | Clearly the most drastic punishment for a firm that has reneged on the collusive agreement would be for the other firms to force it to its security level , either forever or for some specified number of time periods . |
| 25 | Michael Clark develops further the radical primitivism … taking it to its extreme in his new work Rite Now , a collaboration with Stephen Petronio . |
| 26 | Only one God can have brought the world into being , supervise it in the present and bring it to its end . |
| 27 | She hastily returned it to its place , and in a state of some agitation went back to her car and sat there until she felt calm again . |
| 28 | She withdrew the photo abruptly and returned it to its place on a table . |
| 29 | He took the scrapbook and restored it to its place on the shelf . |
| 30 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |