Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] itself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By August that political movement found itself a paper in the Berkeley Barb . |
| 2 | Having started on a shoestring , the paper built itself a circulation of 40,000 and also got itself , with the sixth issue in February 1964 , its big Australian obscenity charge . |
| 3 | On the very day of the Manifesto a central strike committee in the capital proclaimed itself the St Petersburg Soviet ( Council ) of Workers ' Deputies . |
| 4 | On the very day of the Manifesto a central strike committee in the capital proclaimed itself the St Petersburg Soviet ( Council ) of Workers ' Deputies . |
| 5 | I hobbled over to collect the missing shoe and the dress detached itself a press stud at a time , disengaging itself completely as I bent — bottom to camera — to retrieve the shoe . |
| 6 | The formal date for compliance was July 1985 but , as Nigel Haigh notes in EEC Environmental Policy and Britain , in 1983 the UK government set itself a target of complying with the lead limit only by December 1989 . |
| 7 | The WPBSA 's constitution does not permit player-directors to be paid , but the board voted itself a 50 pence per mile travelling allowance in 1984 and doubled it to £1 per mile this year . |
| 8 | The Kaunas branch renamed itself the Lithuanian Conservative Union on March 21 . |
| 9 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 10 | For the Kalmar project the company set itself the objective : |
| 11 | Wyse Technology found itself a technology playmate in Siemens Nixdorf , having forged a pact some months ago that they 're just getting around to telling us about : Wyse is selling SNI its Intel Corp-based symmetric multi-processing designs and subsystems which the Germans are using in the MX500 superserver line released in Europe and the Far East late last year . |
| 12 | In the starlight , her sister 's colourless face seemed itself a pale round wafer of a moon , her expression , the anxious brows rising to meet each other , mimicked the moon 's own self-dramatising look of melancholy ; Caterina felt like snapping her fingers in front of her sister 's nose , or pinching her fat ribs hard , to wake her from her indulged state , but she restrained herself , and instead , in the most solicitous accents she could muster , coaxed Rosa into telling her the matter . |
| 13 | The urban lower middle class was broadly nationalist , while class-conscious workers , with the support of the majority , were deliberately anti-nationalist ( the Czech Communist Party declared itself the party of Czech , German , Slovak , Hungarian , Ruthenian and Polish workers ) . |
| 14 | The castle earned itself a place in modern history on 1 July 1969 when it was the setting for the Investiture of HRH Prince Charles as Prince of Wales . |
| 15 | The Bulgarian Communist Party renamed itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party on April 3 , calling the decision a clean break with " the dictatorship of the time before Nov. 10 , 1989 , which was a dictatorship not only over the people , but over the party as well " . |