Example sentences of "its [noun] [verb] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Its substance reformed and repaired itself , recoagulating and stiffening even as Jaq hewed with his power axe and as his companions lasered .
2 The WFS data confirm earlier findings for developed countries that an infant is least likely to survive one year if its birth followed or preceded one that occurred within 24 months of its own ( Maine and McNamara , 1985 ; Acsadi and Johnson-Acsadi , 1985a , 1985b ; Maine , et al , 1985 ; Rutstein , 1983 , 1984 ) .
3 A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition .
4 Their eyes followed thy bird as its image shrank and lost itself in space .
5 From the corner of the compound the raised machine-gun and its minder watched and bided their time .
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