Example sentences of "itself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting where he was , a bullet fired into the back of his neck might pass through and embed itself somewhere in the brickwork above the stove . |
| 2 | Shiona felt her heart perform a triple somersault and lodge itself somewhere in the region of her throat . |
| 3 | The Thingi is a £7.49 plastic arm that Velcros itself on to the top of your monitor and hangs over the side . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's sending itself on to the Shuttle . |
| 5 | Her flesh shrank away from the paw 's touch , as if gathering and compressing itself on to the bone . |
| 6 | The mite then seizes the chance to lever itself on to the ant 's head , where it hangs on , upside down , with its hind legs . |
| 7 | I 'm not going to do it cos it 's full of of jugs and then it tips back on itself on to the on to the flat side . |
| 8 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 9 | I 'm going to work on a revolutionary kagoul that pulls itself on like the hood of a Chevy convertible , and then recedes at the touch of a button . |
| 10 | She had no friends , for she repelled intimacy as though it were an insult , but she had a position : her manner imposed itself relentlessly upon the indifferent and the unconcerned . |
| 11 | The fringing reef came into view as well : a ragged line of breakers , huge walls of spume and the ocean hurling itself relentlessly against the coral . |
| 12 | The state-controlled television threw itself vigorously into the fray . |
| 13 | Her plaintive whisper had projected itself right round the Hall , but this had not put paid to her determination to secure his attention . |
| 14 | Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign . |
| 15 | Outside in the corridor , his mind still easing itself in to the thought that he was now an agent , an M16 man , Carrington met Desmond Morton . |
| 16 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 17 | I hoped to catch Toby in the Press tent — a good bet since he kept his appearances on the course itself down to the minimum , on the grounds that his editor was not interested in golf but only in scandals that might be unearthed or invented . |
| 18 | I regard the existence of flourishing humanities research as an index to the civilisation of our society ; Labour , however , has committed itself prematurely to the establishment of a humanities research council . |
| 19 | Brute farce , however effective in terrorizing people , is not by itself enough in the longer run . |
| 20 | A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry . |
| 21 | Over 100 Labour Members of Parliament began to urge the government to dissociate itself entirely from the war . |
| 22 | Between the subtle observations of the period of about 270–240 B.C. and the adulation of poems like that by Melinno — which , though undated , places itself naturally in the early second century — we have to recognize a gap . |
| 23 | In another decade the new Bokhara will have attracted to itself much of the importance of the ancient city , and with its rise and growth the prestige of the latter must inevitably decline . |
| 24 | The United States was increasingly distracted by Vietnam , while in 1966 France began to disengage itself militarily from the alliance . |
| 25 | The Butlins Empire has now had to market itself anew for the experienced package tourist ; a move from wooden chalets to brick-built country suites , from the Minehead Camp to Summerwest World . |
| 26 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
| 27 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 28 | Half a breath dimly lit itself exactly in the middle of his head . |
| 29 | For one day , it seems the country gave itself over to the pursuit of all things musical , in a wholehearted and thoroughly charitably-minded fashion . |
| 30 | Unsurprisingly , it confined itself largely to the home — to the space between the sink and the bed . |