Example sentences of "[vb past] itself [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 2 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 3 | Her body emptied itself in all its chambers . |
| 4 | A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point . |
| 5 | We may eventually come to think in terms of a Minoan Universal Spirit , which manifested itself in many different transformations , each with a different name , character , and function , and which yet somehow was regarded as a single deity . |
| 6 | In the early years of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial expansion the Church militant got itself into some considerable moral tangles , but these did not prove insuperable . |
| 7 | Then in 1987 Midland Bank got itself in such a mess that it was on the receiving end of a laughable offer from the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising empire . |
| 8 | For it is indeed time some party concerned itself with all those intangible forms of wealth that can not be included in anything called so appropriately the gross national product . |
| 9 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 10 | But I mean er that one lent itself to that . |
| 11 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |
| 12 | He possessed a cheery self-confidence , which communicated itself to those around him . |
| 13 | The Socialist League defended itself against any suggestion that it was exceeding its limited aims . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom based itself in that regard on international law and on the need for the flag state effectively to exercise jurisdiction over the owners , charterers and operators of vessels flying its flag . |
| 15 | It based itself in that connection on Brugnoni v. Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia ( Case 157/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 2013 relating to the interpretation of article 2 of the Directive , which , in the Commission 's view , was not different in substance from article 1 . |
| 16 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 17 | Nor was she in the gaming room with its low lights on green baize tables , circles of hands restless with chips , cards , cigarettes , while the tension adjusted itself with each soft call of the croupiers . |
| 18 | Then there were Heather and Katie , inseparable friends , who bolstered each other by their mutual devotion ; never had they known a Moment 's shame of friendlessness , never had they had to look for a partner in dancing or in gym , never had they walked alone from classroom to classroom , and their confidence overflowed and imposed itself upon all beholders . |
| 19 | A number of COS district branches soon began to form themselves into separate committees for this purpose , and in 1902 a Central Industrial Bureau was opened which , under pressure from increased applications from boys as well as girls , addressed itself to both sexes . |
| 20 | As the FMLN opened up war fronts and established itself in several areas of the country , many medical students and health workers joined the liberation army and worked with the communities to set up their own alternative health system . |
| 21 | Land was parcelled out to major mamluks to enrich themselves and this unusual form of alien rule perpetuated itself for several centuries . |
| 22 | In 1930 the moral majority ( not that it knew itself by that name in those days ) hit back against what it saw as the growing licentiousness and depravity of the movie industry and introduced a production code that all film producers would be required to adhere to . |
| 23 | Any account of political conflict , however , which confined itself to these limiting cases of rational persuasion on one side and the use of physical force on the other , would be seriously incomplete . |
| 24 | Aloofness and lack of democracy in Labour during the Kinnock years produced a party that was also aloof and undemocratic and publicly projected itself as such in Sheffield . |
| 25 | My love , no longer inhibited by his existence , presented itself with all the understanding required to bring us together again — the gentleness , the words , the small gestures that make it possible for one person to reveal himself to another and two people to share life . |
| 26 | Uninterested in material things , and conspicuously more at home in jungles than in drawing rooms , he possessed a sweet distinction of bearing which impressed itself on all who met him . |
| 27 | In these ‘ frenzied uprisings ’ ‘ the peasant consciousness suddenly broke loose from its moorings , fell prey to ancient deliriums , and abandoned itself to all its demons . |