Example sentences of "[vb past] itself against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman Catholic Church pronounced itself against the coup while conceding that " effective action " was needed to eradicate terrorism , drug-trafficking and corruption . |
| 2 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 3 | Her bullet tore through Ma Katz and spent itself against the wall . |
| 4 | A smiling , mad face pressed itself against the grille . |
| 5 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 6 | That night a bird hurled itself against the window pane and woke them both up . |
| 7 | That is , where the Berlin Secession defined itself against the Wilhelmine state , its Viennese counterpart defined itself against the bourgeois values of the Ringstrasse culture of the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 8 | That is , where the Berlin Secession defined itself against the Wilhelmine state , its Viennese counterpart defined itself against the bourgeois values of the Ringstrasse culture of the 1860s and 1870s . |