Citations:its

Possessive pronoun: general

 * 1914 — Rt Rev Alexander McDonald, "When does the Soul enter the Body?" The American ecclesiastical review Vol.L (X new series) No.1 p.16 (January 1914):
 * The business of the soul is not to build a house but to dwell in it. ... Not its to plan the tenement of clay, or carry the plan into effect; not its to devise and execute; its only to use the dwelling-place provided, enlarge it on the original lines, conserve it.
 * 1975 — Daniel Dervin, Bernard Shaw: a psychological study, Bucknell University Press, p.300:
 * He tried to overcome this by bringing reality over to his side, making it conform to his model rather than he to its.
 * 1984 — Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory, Chapter 2:
 * I was still shaking, so I couldn't tell if the vibrations the body made were its or mine.
 * 2007 — Ian Austen, "Canadian Court Opens Up eBay Data to Tax Agency", New York Times, October 1, 2007:
 * EBay Canada argued in court that the data sought by tax collectors was not its to give.
 * 2015 — Dirk Forrister, "Letters to the editor: Green technologies" The Economist, December 19, 2015:
 * China is implementing an economy- wide cap-and-trade system, the European Union is strengthening its, Canadian provinces and American states are building a market jurisdiction by jurisdiction and South Africa is implementing a modest carbon tax.

Possessive pronoun: double possessive

 * 1645 — Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton, Letter to Ferdinando Fairfax, 6 February 1645:
 * [...] both Houses have resolved to rob the North of a good friend of its and yours.
 * 1889 — William Wallace (translator; G. W. F. Hegel original German) Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences I: Logic (2.B.a) § 132:
 * This ground of its is no less phenomenal than itself [...]
 * 1917 — Charles Henry Taylor, History of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago Vol.2 p.1259:
 * ...the Board of Trade of Chicago can at least feel that it has played its part manfully and patriotically, and that no act of its has stood in the way of National victory.