Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] that [vb past] its " in BNC.

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1 The second window disappeared and the metal surface that took its place was optically softened by a group of three small air intakes .
2 The one bird in the control treatment that opened its container in the training session did not drink the milk .
3 The tall , straight young back that sauntered away down-river , to come about in a wide circuit via the fence of the curator 's garden , and the box hedge that continued its line , maintained too secure an assurance , and too secret a satisfaction of its own , in spite of the dexterity with which it had removed itself from censure .
4 We lived in the tenement block that ran its whole length in a top-storey room and kitchen with no bathroom and an outside toilet shared with several other families and reached by an open staircase .
5 and the wire mesh that caged its overhang .
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