Example sentences of "with its [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelius observed that of the twenty-seven windows on the first floor , eight were open , with their blinds up , eight were closed with their blinds down , nine were closed , with their blinds up , one was open with its blind down and one was closed , had its blind halfway up and the light on . |
| 2 | The car was out with its bonnet up and Mr Sargent was there with a flashlight , peering into the engine . |
| 3 | Whether one is satisfied that Mercier made free with its location so as to avoid having a fussy detail right at the edge of his picture must be for each observer to decide . |
| 4 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 5 | For those who wish the work to emerge with its character heavily emboldened without in any way resorting to selfregarding artifice , then there is no denying the enormous impact of both the LSO/Tilson Tomas ( Sony ) and VPO/Abbado ( DG ) versions . |
| 6 | A third parameter is allowed and should be used if the target database is DEC Rdb/VMS and the VMS username is not comparable with its UIC. e.g. if the VMS username is RDBITEST and the associated UIC is [ C2168 , RDBITEST ] then this parameter may be left blank . |
| 7 | Sure enough along came a vehicle with its headlights on , a small open staff car with two Germans in it , who stopped to investigate the gesticulating ‘ Arab ’ . |
| 8 | On the middle pitch , with its grain as fine as sandpaper , you will be hard pushed to find a single loose hold . |
| 9 | Professor Hoskin , how worrying is this rise of , of nationalism in the narrow sense of the word and er your concerns about adventurism by Boris Yeltsin that concerns the republics , er , which might suffer considerably , Armenia for example , has always been er some sort of conflict with its neighbour like . |
| 10 | At the edge of the marsh stood an old DANGER notice , leaning at an angle and with its warning almost rubbed out by the weather . |
| 11 | With its existence thus assumed it is knowledge of the external world which has to be explained . |
| 12 | Unlike British broadcasting , radio was from the start in the hands of commercial companies , with its programmes frequently punctuated by advertisements . |
| 13 | ‘ Once I was driving up High Street East in Sunderland with a local priest when I saw a furniture van ahead with its ramp down . |
| 14 | But not only did she see herself , small , sitting there ; she also saw through herself ( because the telescope , with its hollow inside , was her ) and she saw that she was hollow . |
| 15 | Its functional modernity struck a discordant note in a room which was otherwise cluttered with eighteenth-century furniture ; two chairs with embroidered seats , a Pembroke table , a bureau , each a fine example of its period , were strategically placed to provide an island of support if she needed to make her painful progress to the door , so that the room looked rather like an antique shop with its treasures ineptly displayed . |
| 16 | With its inflation still rising , the country on the verge of a perilous wage-price spiral and public finances deeply in the red , the Bundesbank has made it clear that it will keep the German economy locked in a vice of high interest rates for as long as it takes to squeeze out inflation . |
| 17 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 18 | North-western Iran was hit at 2.50 a.m. local time on June 21 by a major earthquake , measuring between 7.3 and 7.7 on the Richter scale , with its epicentre about 190 km north-west of Tehran under the Caspian Sea . |
| 19 | They have issued an appeal for witnesses and are particularly keen to trace the driver of a car seen leaving the area with its lights off on Saturday night . |
| 20 | Detectives are keen to speak to the driver of a car seen leaving the murder scene with its lights off shortly after gunshots were heard . |
| 21 | I felt naked and horribly vulnerable , like a snail with its shell off ; every nerve was close to the surface ; I thought if anyone so much as touched me , I 'd scream . |
| 22 | Ford retained market leadership with its share up from a lowly 20 per cent last September to 25 per cent — a volume increase from 34,421 to 38,445 . |
| 23 | That one writes with its cap on . |
| 24 | The Sutton estate with its rectory then fell to his two daughters , Margaret by his second wife and Mary by his third ( born posthumously to Sir Samuel who was eighty-two years old when he died ! ) . |
| 25 | You keep the line dressed and straight behind the float and a certain tension at the point where the float tip protrudes from the surface so that the slightest movement of your wrist just lifts the float fractionally without interfering with its progress downstream and you watch it lift slightly and settle and feel in your bones — if you 've executed the hold-back right — that it will surely sink to a fish before travelling another inch . |
| 26 | The beautiful beast was motionless with its claws still clasping the bait . |
| 27 | WordStar for Windows 1.5 is a very capable and usable application that competes with its contemporaries extremely well . |
| 28 | But then the entire house , with its views out over the bay and the stunningly wild countryside , was a dream . |
| 29 | If we time it right we 'll catch it with its pants down . ’ |
| 30 | Rising behind one of them was a third hill , even higher , and with its top still hidden in fog . |