Example sentences of "[vb past] itself for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child 's parents , and especially his father , were perceived as the obstacle to a realization of his Oedipus wishes ; so his infantile ego fortified itself for the carrying out of the repression by erecting this same obstacle within itself . |
| 2 | Certainly , as his mind prepared itself for the acceptance of the |
| 3 | She decided she would say it , noticed how her body rearranged itself for the tone that would come . |
| 4 | And the implications of that as the government readied itself for the privatisation of British Airways were too horrific to contemplate . |
| 5 | Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient . |