Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] in its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil … |
| 2 | He decided they are not , ‘ since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw , but encounters it in its easiest synthetic form — upon the printed page . ’ |
| 3 | Does n't , it holds it all , it holds it in its , in itself |
| 4 | The rose is one of our national flowers and this month sees it in its full glory . |
| 5 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 6 | Other Member States can not be expected to recognise the impact of tax distortions unless the major spirits producer , the UK itself , recognises the force of the competitive argument , and applies it in its domestic market . |
| 7 | So although regular airings in galleries , especially solo shows , are good for sales and CVs , showing my work at home puts it in its most sympathetic environment . |
| 8 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 9 | If the wind catches you in its path it will blind you . |
| 10 | The Israeli Cabinet approves Shamir 's " peace plan " ; three days later the plan is approved by the Knesset , but the PLO rejects it in its present form . |
| 11 | It is ironic that even in the UK the National Anti-Vivisection Society ( NAVS ) urges us in its literature to look to our own self-interest . |
| 12 | Having carried out the work , the repairer then supplies the goods to the original owner who , using its VAT number , acquires them in its own country so avoiding the need for cross-border refunds . |
| 13 | True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth . |