Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside her meagre meal Portia carried a slim black zip-up file case and a copy of the Financial Times which I recognised by its distinctive colour . |
| 2 | Below the 102/2 comes the 101/2 ( £495 , reviewed by John Borwick last September ) and above the 104/2 lie the 105/3 ( £1,995 ) and 107/2 ( £3,195 ) which I reviewed in its original form in August 1988 . |
| 3 | Von Frisch initially thought that the dance merely alerted the bees to the presence of a new source , which they found by its scent . |
| 4 | In 1914 , Mr J. F. Gairns of the Railway Magazine visited the Works which he described in its final form . |
| 5 | The company expects the Motif drag-and-drop , which it substituted for its proprietary GUI , to shorten the learning curve . |
| 6 | Before independence , TANU had its own newsletter , Sauti ya TANU ( ‘ The Voice of TANU ’ ) , which it produced from its headquarters in Dar es Salaam . |
| 7 | It received the wire services of Reuters and AFP , which it retransmitted to its customers , including the Times and the Mail . |
| 8 | In its final Report , the Criminal Law Revision Committee has retreated from the abolitionist position which it took in its Working Paper . |
| 9 | That led the court to hold in that judgment that , as a result of article 234 , a member state might have to apply , in its relations with the other member states , rules different from those which it applied in its relations with non-member countries , even though they were all party to the same international convention . |
| 10 | THE mighty ITT is running into legal problems with the name Digivision which it chose for its £20 million investment in an all-digital television set . |
| 11 | Kubota has stopped production of the Mips Technologies Inc R3000-based Titan 1.0 machines which it inherited from its now defunct Stardent Inc sibling . |
| 12 | In Ireland , Easons repeated its Diamond Collection catalogue , which it distributed through its wholesale division to booksellers in both the Republic and Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | In practice the countryside was easy to conquer ; but it could only be controlled properly if the fortified places upon which it depended for its economic well-being and defence were also in friendly hands . |
| 14 | The Thorolds , who still live at Marston , kept Sedgebrook until 1928 , after which it reverted to its early life as a farmhouse . |
| 15 | " Her choosing that wine was the effect of what you said about its edge . " |
| 16 | Certain third States , including the United Kingdom and other European States , attempted to persuade New Zealand to perform what they perceived as its treaty obligations . |
| 17 | What he wanted in its place was put more colourfully , but very succinctly , when he said , also in 1965 , ‘ However , big the glass which is proffered from outside , we prefer to drink from our own glass ; while at the same time clinking glasses with those around us ’ . |
| 18 | Amid discussion of a possible UN resolution to condemn Iraq for war crimes , Bush said on Oct. 16 that the Iraqi leadership would be called to account for what he described as its " unprecedented brutality " . |
| 19 | There is indeed plenty in print about them , but it is economic , argumentative stuff , mostly condemnatory and lacking in any understanding of what this old world meant to the peasant , and of what he lost by its passing . |
| 20 | Only when the tenants brought the local newspaper down to see the dead rats and disrepair was the council moved to begin some repairs and rebuild the roof , but not before telling the press what it thought of its tenants . |
| 21 | On these occasions the gloves came off as the Service most adversely affected sought support in Parliament , in the media , from industry , and from the electorate , in what it saw as its fight for survival . |
| 22 | If it was not free from unwelcome intervention the papacy could not be active in what it saw as its role . |
| 23 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |