Example sentences of "it [vb base] its [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | it press its tender lips against the bold |
2 | This is done by , when he thinks , ‘ … heard the same complaint and sat there powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
3 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
4 | There 's no doubt that while the East is fascinating in many ways , most people who write of it overlook its two outstanding features — sand and syphilis , especially the latter , which is very prevalent . |
5 | They watched it chew its faultless way through several plates . |
6 | It may be that as the town of Mallia grew , it outgrew its local territory and annexed the adjacent Lasithi territory . |
7 | The government refused to agree to the Indians ' demand that it abandon its militarized " security zone " on the Peruvian frontier , and pass a constitutional amendment recognizing the country as " multi-cultural and multi-national " . |
8 | The ANC also firmly rejected the government 's insistence that it disband its armed wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe ( MK ) , before a full transitional government was in place . |