Example sentences of "and [verb] itself [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it goes through a tunnel and squirts itself out into another universe somewhere else . |
| 2 | The next day she decided to saddle the horse for a ride , but as the girth was being tightened the horse pulled back in great fear , broke its halter rope , and threw itself over backwards sending the saddle crashing to the ground . |
| 3 | But for one zany week in March , the place sheds its stay-at-home Cinderella rags , paints its face and gets itself up in motley as Clown Town . |
| 4 | Better a steady flame than one that flares up and burns itself out . ’ |
| 5 | If Labour can not stake its claim to be the future government , it may be by-passed by events and find itself back in the wilderness . |
| 6 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 7 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 8 | An alternating audio signal is required from pin 6 , and a means must be found of preventing this ‘ feeding back ’ to pin 2 and cancelling itself out . |
| 9 | The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure . |
| 10 | Her flesh shrank away from the paw 's touch , as if gathering and compressing itself on to the bone . |
| 11 | A rabbit can negotiate a vertical rise or fall , being able to lever and push itself up or down , using its body against the sides of the hole . |
| 12 | On July 12 , 1989 , the Grey Panthers , formerly a group of some 25,000 members within the Greens reflecting the interests of older citizens , split away and set itself up as a new political party called the Greys ( die Grauen ) . |