Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] itself on " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle wanted first for the Commission to end the pretence that it was a potential European government , and also its efforts to impose itself on national governments ; and second that if the Treaty of Rome requirements about majority voting were to apply , they should not be permitted to do so in situations where a member state deemed its vital interests to be at risk . |
| 2 | John Mansfield Comprehensive School , Peterborough was the first school to sell itself on local radio . |
| 3 | In these circumstances the company would be wise to obtain access to appropriate option pricing software to satisfy itself on pricing . |
| 4 | The Ego does charitable work in order to pat itself on the back , and feel self-righteous — not from a sense of love and concern . |
| 5 | In this respect , many of us in fact reform and bend English to our needs rather than allow that language to impose itself on our realities . |