Example sentences of "itself [adv] in 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 | Brute farce , however effective in terrorizing people , is not by itself enough in the longer run . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Half a breath dimly lit itself exactly in the middle of his head . |
| 6 | As the oxygen is bound the iron shrinks in size and buries itself further in the porphyrin . |
| 7 | Again , as in The Graduate , it was a hit song on the soundtrack , in this case , Fred Neil 's ‘ Everybody 's Talkin ’ , that gave the film a contemporary resonance , lodging itself more in the ear than in the eye or mind . |
| 8 | Its articulation is easier and hence its flexibility is greater than that of the trumpet , but its proper place is the brass or wind band and it has not succeeded in establishing itself permanently in the orchestra . |
| 9 | But in general the architecture of the area divides itself clearly in the period 1200–1600 into two main types . |
| 10 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 11 | The structure of intelligence reveals itself spontaneously in the way people behave intellectually ; it is not imposed by the assumptions of testers , as the national press would have it . |
| 12 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 13 | Sir : Your otherwise sound leading article ( 'Private gifts for public arts ' , 11 October ) shot itself hypocritically in the foot in its last paragraph by expressing irritation with corporate executives who ‘ parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ’ money' . |
| 14 | For example , will an increase in aggregate demand manifest itself principally in the form of an increase in output , as the naive model suggests , or in the form of an increase in prices , as the equally naive quantity theory of money suggests ? |
| 15 | Finally , Stamford put itself forward in the 1960s as one of the sites for the new generation of universities , citing the town 's ‘ university history ’ in support of its case . |
| 16 | The discourse of ‘ diagnosis ’ represents a coercive use of metaphor in that its aim is to replicate itself faithfully in the conceptual idiolect of all people . |