Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead the Kette , led by the intrepid Müncheberg , dived after the Sunderland strafing it as it taxied to its moorings , and sinking it . |
| 2 | The letter , and the reactions to it , confirmed that the CPSU was afflicted with deep factional divisions as it prepared for its 28th congress in July , and that an imminent party split was a very real prospect . |
| 3 | His manservant turned , stared out of the doorway and caught the sounds of the priory community as it went about its daily tasks ; the clang of milk pails , the rumble of cartwheels , and beneath the liquid song of the birds , the gentle chanting of the nuns from the priory church . |
| 4 | This was to see if there were any experiences that could be of use to the LEA as it looked at its own internal processes , particularly the support services it provides for its schools . |
| 5 | This borrowed item , no doubt bequeathed by some burly and well-meaning district commissioner , does not possess quite the same significance in this ambience as it had in its original context . |
| 6 | The gondola which takes skiers from load level up to the skiing area proved as popular with visitors last summer as it had in its first winter , with tourists of all ages and states of infirmity able to enjoy the marvellous view along Loch Eli and the Great Glen . |
| 7 | Such success as it had from its first performance in 1936 onwards has been of the kind discouragingly dubbed as ‘ of esteem ’ . |
| 8 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 9 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 10 | ‘ My father has seven of these , ’ Jehan said , fingering a half-finished bow as it lay in its clamps . |
| 11 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 12 | The production of a group of related species on the different islands of an archipelago provided a model for divergent evolution , suggesting that , when a species was divided into separate breeding populations , each of those populations had the ability to change as it adapted to its new environment . |
| 13 | A horse skidded on ice , whinnying loudly as it fell to its side . |
| 14 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 15 | But , as it warned in its report : ‘ No matter how far the Institute in fact agrees to open up its procedures , there will always be cries for more . ’ |
| 16 | Hospice medication was always given in doses adequate to give relief of pain and other symptoms , even at the risk of shortening life , and this could improve , of only temporarily , the quality of life of the patient as it drew to its close . |
| 17 | Council leader John Williams said he was delighted the Labour controlled authority had finished the scheme by Easter as it promised in its manifesto . |
| 18 | As far as the residence requirements were concerned , the Commission considered that , as it stated in its communication of 19 July 1989 on a Community framework for access to fishing quotas ( Official Journal 1989 No . |
| 19 | Heritage Weekend is being celebrated at National Trust properties all over the province on Saturday and Sunday , including Castle Ward near Strangford where the newly-restored cornmill will be producing flour , just as it did in its heyday , on both days ( 2.30pm-5pm ) . |
| 20 | The cultured voice had lost its clear edge , become slurred as it reverted to its mother tongue . |