Example sentences of "[verb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in my life , my hair behaved itself and curled round my face in a manner which I considered most flattering , and my make-up went on well on a skin which did n't have one spot or blemish . |
| 2 | Below : An aging male babirusa that appears near to the day when it slowly gores itself through its forehead . |
| 3 | EGF itself is used , by others as well as ourselves , at doses 100 to 1000 times that used for inducing DNA synthesis in cell cultures , because the phosphorylation is not readily detectable at a lower dose . |
| 4 | Simply put , 88open either has to reinvent itself or hang it up . |
| 5 | Fears that Windows NT will knock the stuffing out of a fragmented Unix industry have galvanized Unix International to reinvent itself . |
| 6 | MORAL panic is one of the more enduring items on the domestic cultural menu and in a month of fatal stabbings , horrific child murder and economic gloom , society seems once again all too willing to frighten itself to death . |
| 7 | A firm which is an independent adviser must take all reasonable steps to inform itself , and all others acting on its behalf fully about what packaged products are available on the market and : |
| 8 | A firm which is a tied firm must take all reasonable steps to inform itself and others acting on its behalf fully about what packaged products are available from the marketing group to which it belongs , and must not proceed with a packaged product for a private customer if it is aware of another packaged product from the marketing group 's product range which would meet the customer 's requirements better . |
| 9 | A hand launching itself into the air |
| 10 | Business Objects SA , a French software house that markets an object-oriented data access tool for end-users which bypasses SQL , will be launching itself onto the UK market next Wednesday . |
| 11 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 12 | As from last week , ICL plc 's Training Services division transformed itself into Peritas Ltd , a wholly-owned , but independent subsidiary . |
| 13 | His frown deepened , then transformed itself into a radiant grin . |
| 14 | At a symbolic rally , held on May 23 in the capital San Salvador , the FMLN transformed itself into a political party . |
| 15 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 16 | The Bloodthirster cast itself forward at Indraugnir and slowly wrestled the dragon down . |
| 17 | Then from out there where Slorne 's gaze had led him , from out of the dark moonlit sky , there came a distant calling of a name , a place , a power , and it was like a great presence he could only feel and not see , and it cast itself over him , and over his cage , and over the whole Zoo , and over more than that . |
| 18 | Her hands were off the wheel too and the Glory was driving itself . |
| 19 | Although driving itself is an extremely recent skill in evolutionary terms , such a link between potential danger and memory may have proved useful in many other situations ( e.g. McGaugh , 1990 ) . |
| 20 | It is that of ‘ a thinking , intelligent being , that has reason and reflection , and can consider itself as itself , the same thinking thing in different times and places ’ . |
| 21 | Further , how can this situation occur in a society which would consider itself to be both civilised and compassionate in its dealings with older people ? |
| 22 | Or it might consider itself a success if it can stop providers passing on increases in input prices in full without trying to reduce them by greater efficiency . |
| 23 | It emerges from the guidance note that the DSS does not consider itself to be bound by settlements negotiated with Inland Revenue PAYE officers . |
| 24 | Perhaps no society which had surmounted such a trial could consider itself as simply one power amongst many . |
| 25 | Egypt concluded that it ‘ does not consider itself bound by that Memorandum or whatever commitments to which it was not a party or on which it was not consulted ’ . |
| 26 | For that reason , the Territorial Army does not consider itself in any way a second-class alternative . |
| 27 | Contemporary science is able to designate itself , through its revolutionary discoveries , as a liquidation of a past . |
| 28 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 29 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution ; it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China ( ROC ) . |
| 30 | It 's flying fast but approaching incredibly slowly — it 's pressing itself towards me and waving and kicking so that I 'm getting bruised all over . |