Example sentences of "and it [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbour commissioner Frank Sluman said : ‘ The sea is a cruel master and it takes its toll over the years . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , the authorities made no move against the organization during the Second World War and it continued its activities unmolested . |
| 3 | It has beautiful purple and green plumage , but its voice is strident and it threshes its wings frantically overhead when in the presence of any other murder victim , crying ‘ Ishkoonee ! ’ |
| 4 | Whether or not the biographer was right , it is true that once you can exclaim ‘ Abba , Father ! ’ , joy is the accompanying fruit of the Spirit and it sheds its radiance over life and death . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dieting without exercise also forces the body to manage on less oxygen , and it reduces its oxygen intake even further when it has to take energy , not from food , but from the body itself . |
| 8 | And it got its head trod in . |
| 9 | The new two-part report in February 1983 avoided direct reference to the Committee constitution that had so bedevilled the 1982 Extraordinary General Meeting , and it restricted its recommendation to clubhouse alterations , and to raising finance by a new bond issue which simultaneously meant redeeming the foundation bonds . |
| 10 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 11 | Robert Luterell , younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Luterell , who commissioned the famous Luterell Psalter , gave his house called ‘ the Gannoc ’ on St. Peter 's Street for use as a school , and it had its own chapel of St. Mary . |
| 12 | The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized . |
| 13 | She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified … |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | No it 's er it came today and it had its balance on its ticket and I 've rung them up and er |
| 16 | It was still a walled city , the walls were all virtually intact , the castle was a bit ruinous , but it was there , and it had its four main gates , erm East Gate on the important London Road going out past Magdalen and over Magdalen Bridge , erm the North Gate here , the Westgate by the Castle , and then still existing then but not in your map if you can find it , the South Gate across the road , just at the bottom of Christchurch , can you find Christchurch on your map ? erm Now , perhaps you can that there 's a difference in Christchurch on your map with this one . |
| 17 | April 1992 saw the car completed and it passed its MOT with flying colours . |
| 18 | Penal control , on the other hand , ‘ prohibits certain conduct , and it enforces its prohibitions with punishment ’ . |
| 19 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 20 | One called Ilex macrocarpa , and I am not surprised it is n't on offer in the trade , has the biggest berries of all , but they are jet black and it loses its leaves in winter . |
| 21 | The national state , as it took shape in Western Europe , controlled a well-defined , continuous territory ; it was relatively centralized ; it was clearly differentiated from other organizations ; and it reinforced its claims by gradually acquiring a monopoly of the means of physical coercion within its territory . |
| 22 | Primarily peasant guerilla fighters , people who were fighting in the Red Army , and it draws its mass support , the Party members draw their mass support , er from the peasants in the areas where they establish their authority . |
| 23 | Right it pinched its place and it pinched its charge , it displaced it it pinched it out of its nice cosy relationship |
| 24 | Mathematics is the perfect language for this sort of exercise and it shows its power by penetrating beyond the every-day dialectic of wave and particle to the synthesis of a quantum field . |
| 25 | A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators . |
| 26 | And it reckons its enhanced JetDirect technology , which enables the new printers to work concurrently with personal computers , Macs , Unix workstations and a variety of networks is an important step towards this goal . |
| 27 | It was called Il Risorgimento , the ‘ the reawakening ’ , and it gave its name almost as a battlecry to the forces of unification . |
| 28 | The Conservative Party lost ground , its vote falling from 23.7 per cent to 21.8 per cent , and it lost its control of the Oslo municipal council to an alliance of Labour and Socialist Left . |
| 29 | ‘ The workforce thus comes to view employment in the firm as a permanent career , and it sees its future as intimately tied up with the fate of the enterprise ’ ( Gallie 1978 , 18 ) . |
| 30 | The belief that Worrell should have been appointed was extremely strong throughout the Caribbean , and it found its expression through C.L.R. James , then editor of the Trinidad newspaper The Nation . |