Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradise it was not ; but at least it resembled something like its antechamber . |
| 2 | Though warfare came increasingly to be in competition with marriage marketing as the chief business of kings , it lost none of its importance in the eyes of contemporaries : the more indecisive it became , the more attached they were to it . |
| 3 | But at that moment the phone perversely decided to break its vow of silence and ring — if ‘ ring ’ was quite the right word for the refined sound by which it alerted her to its sleekly Design-Centred presence . |
| 4 | cos the main environmental was er , it did it on its own , with a completely empty switchboard , no calls on five o'clock at night , everybody had gone home and the bloody thing would just sit ringing , ringing , ringing , ringing and erm |
| 5 | George Eliot clearly admires the one at Cheverel Manor , ‘ which was so bare of furniture that it impressed one with its architectural beauty like a cathedral ’ . |
| 6 | I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you . |
| 7 | ‘ The same way you ‘ swung it ’ when that charity show committee decided it wanted me on its bill , ’ she said . |