Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] in its " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Cuzco , Cuzco is your sacred name/ like the sun of the immortal Inca river/ all the world carries you off in its breast/ like a song and a triumphal flag . ) |
| 2 | A torpor held me fast in its strait-jacket . |
| 3 | As though some enormous beast nuzzled her then picked her up in its mouth by the scruff of her neck . |
| 4 | One takes home the bargain and sets it down in its place , and sees either one 's own talent or poverty of imagination . |
| 5 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 6 | The vulture selects a rock , picks it up in its beak and , standing about half to one metre away , throws it at the egg with considerable force . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , they were not immune to public pressure nor to the machinations of some of their fellow councillors and critics , and the realisation that their policy was not as flexible 85 they had hoped , they started to liberalise it both in its written form and its application to particular cases . |
| 8 | Never leave it out in its run overnight at the mercy of foxes . |
| 9 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 10 | The most notable was Windsor and Eton , where it is possible to see it now in its pristine state , for in 1983 Madame Tussaud 's opened the fully restored and refurbished royal station , adjoining the main Windsor terminal and unused for thirty years . |
| 11 | So he marked it with a paperclip for copying , put it back in its manila folder , ‘ wiped off all my fingerprints ’ , and hid it ‘ out of an abundance of caution ’ in the stack of other papers to be copied . |
| 12 | He folded it neatly and put it back in its envelope and stared into space for a minute . |
| 13 | He hung it back in its place , then knelt to put screwed-up newspaper and kindling in the grate . |
| 14 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 15 | ‘ They may seem Mordor-made ’ , he explained in the letters column , ‘ because of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar 's — uncovering society 's hypocritical filth and throwing it back in its teeth . |
| 16 | The Bloods/Crips programme is so infinitely the best scheme for recovering LA thus far offered that I append it here in its vivacious entirety . |
| 17 | The Provisional IRA consistently ignored it even in its verbal propaganda . |
| 18 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 19 | One will seize the fur at the base of its mother 's tail and grip it firmly in its jaws . |