Example sentences of "[to-vb] itself [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 With only small amounts of money changing hands , a limited number of dedicated venues , and , if it were to restrict itself solely to black audiences , a finite number of punters , the black comedy scene is clearly still in its infancy .
2 They reject them as calumnies which are confuted by conscious experience , and adroitly overlook the faint indications through which the unconscious is apt to betray itself even to consciousness .
3 To do this , the group will need to ally itself strategically to these information providers .
4 He advised teachers ‘ to get to it ( the atomic theory ) as quickly as possible ’ , describing it as ‘ one of those short cuts with the human mind often takes to raise itself quickly to a height from which the relations between phenomena can be discerned at a glance ’ .
5 It is simply what presents itself to Moose as the truth when he reflects as carefully as he can , and what he therefore expects to present itself likewise to others .
6 This , it was also thought , would free the child as well to attach itself totally to its new family .
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