Example sentences of "itself [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thingi is a £7.49 plastic arm that Velcros itself on to the top of your monitor and hangs over the side . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's sending itself on to the Shuttle . |
| 3 | Her flesh shrank away from the paw 's touch , as if gathering and compressing itself on to the bone . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is bound to be seen as further evidence that Britain risks cutting itself off from the mainstream of European integration because of hostility both to economic and monetary union and to eventual political union . |
| 14 | Libya barricaded itself off from the outside world yesterday to ‘ mourn ’ the sixth anniversary of the American air raids on Tripoli and Benghazi , mounted in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin night club in which two American soldiers died . |
| 15 | The situation will be made more dangerous if the EC cuts itself off from the new North American Free Trade Area . |
| 16 | It therefore becomes a little universe of independent reality in revolt from God and the rest of time , and able to fence itself off from the lessons of the past and the demands of the future . |
| 17 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 18 | What it meant was that matter could curve a region in on itself so much that it would effectively cut itself off from the rest of the universe . |
| 19 | If one had a particle with an energy above what is called the Planck energy , ten million million million GeV ( 1 followed by nineteen zeros ) , its mass would be so concentrated that it would cut itself off from the rest of the universe and form a little black hole . |
| 20 | By joining the pro-Iraqi camp the PLO effectively cut itself off from the moderating influences ( and financial backing ) of the Gulf states and Egypt , and rendered highly unlikely any prospects for a resumption of US-Palestinian talks ( broken off in June — see pp. 37547 ; 37626-27 ) . |
| 21 | The rosewood has contracted slightly across the grain , taking the plastic binding with it and leaving a just-perceptible ‘ step ’ from the neck itself up to the binding . |
| 22 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases . |
| 25 | It is not , however , a case of the infant building itself up at the mother 's expense . |
| 26 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 27 | Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas has , by its own proclamation , set itself up as the Bible for traffic planners . |
| 28 | The modern obsession with the tube — that evanescent twist of the wave as it curls itself up into the form of a vagina to lure in unwary youths like bees into the mouths of flowers — perpetuates the equation of surfing and sex . |
| 29 | GEC , under the guidance of Lord Weinstock , built itself up into the largest manufacturing employer in the UK , producing a wide range of products from telecommunications to defence electronics . |
| 30 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |