Example sentences of "was [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE shares of Quicks Group raced ahead 22 to 90p yesterday after the Manchester-based car distributor announced a return to the black in 1991 and that it was maintaining its dividend total at 3p , with a 2p final on July 10 . |
| 2 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 3 | So if the horse raised the note of the whinny when it was demanding its food , the message would change from ‘ I want my dinner ’ , to ( according to Blake ) : ‘ Where is my bloody breakfast , you fool , I 'm starving . ’ |
| 4 | The Public Prosecution Office was completing its investigations . |
| 5 | In the light of that recognition , he can not dismiss as mere fantasy the sense we all have that it would be an unnatural organization of our nature if some slight personal desire was given its head against benevolent concern with some major aspect of the welfare of others . |
| 6 | The gas was given its name because steam is used in its preparation and because it burns with a bright blue flame . |
| 7 | However , it was given its name before many of today 's really aggressive species were introduced to the hobby , and it is not that violent a fish ! |
| 8 | Fergie and Andrew were guests of honour when the film was given its world premiere in London four years ago . |
| 9 | Nature was given its due , but only at the southern tip of the marsh . |
| 10 | In fact , it was not until April 1939 that the RCM was given its allocation of £200,000 . |
| 11 | Robert Saxton 's has just been recorded , William Mathias 's was given its premiere in Manchester in January , and those by Dominic Muldowney and Robin Holloway in Liverpool and Manchester respectively at the end of last month . |
| 12 | The second , that the only way to solve the problem on the canvas was to see its subject again in the flesh , which thought he welcomed , and went to dreams relieved of his frauds and pieties , smiling to think of having the rare thing 's face before him once again . |
| 13 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 14 | The Allied air forces were meanwhile continuing their hunt for the sites from which Iraq was firing its Scud missiles at Saudi Arabia and Israel . |
| 15 | The practice of the taxpayer bank was to invest its day to day surplus holdings in foreign currencies on certificates of deposit which were issued by overseas banks agreeing to repay a fixed sum of money on a fixed date at a fixed rate of interest but which , unlike fixed deposits , were readily marketable at any time before maturity at a price which reflected the accrued interest element up to the date of sale . |
| 16 | The interesting result is the relation between how well the rat remembers , and how long ago it was taught its trick . |
| 17 | He sounded half asleep and an approaching truck was flashing its lights . |
| 18 | Dun and Bradstreet said it was porting its Millenium financial and human resources package , which would be ready by year-end , and in the meantime has a gateway product allowing data access between IBM mainframes and HP systems . |
| 19 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 20 | But it was an era when Belfast was building its reputation as an industrial centre . |
| 21 | With the backing of President North , the Josephite Church was building its sanctuary in the former state of Utah . |
| 22 | What is clear from the minutes is that the implications of school closure for the way of life of the community which was to lose its school were not considered . |
| 23 | His security had been in a family that was to lose its roots , and in a sister who was to lose her life . |
| 24 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 25 | Beginning at Sheffield University on January 31 , the tour was to weave its way through nineteen ( mainly university ) dates before finishing triumphantly at Manchester 's ultra-prestigious Free Trade Hall on February 13 . |
| 26 | It was a lovely looking rabbit but it was wasting its time all cooped up in that cage ! ’ |
| 27 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 28 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 29 | Chiswick , at about that time , was enjoying its reputation as a healthy environment which one resident , Dr. W. Rose recommended to many people including Thomas Bentley , the partner to Josiah Wedgwood , and the manager of that famous Staffordware depot at Chelsea . |
| 30 | Until recently , AEI was handling its accounting using a combination of batch processing on the mainframes , mixing proprietary and third party software , plus locally sourced mini and PC-based packages . |