Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 2 | Lying on a pallet in the downstairs chamber , the deceased woman laid out upstairs , the only sounds came from the cat cleaning itself by the hearth and an owl hooting raucously outside . |
| 3 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 4 | I took stock of the bees in the wisteria and the cat stretching itself under the table . |
| 5 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 6 | A starling anointing itself with the defensive fluids of an ant . |
| 7 | A group describing itself as the " Iraqi national opposition " called on Feb. 19 for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein , as had a communiqué issued on Jan. 28 by the Islamic opposition in Iraq . |
| 8 | Fairness also appears to have a more substantive role manifesting itself in the prohibition of discrimination , in the case law on estoppel , in the proportionality of the punishment to the offence committed , in cases where delay has been held prejudicial to important rights , and in the development of the idea of legitimate expectations . |
| 9 | Simple democracy was society governing itself without the aid of secondary means . |
| 10 | Two wills becoming one , when the two wills were initially unequal can surely only mean the one will subordinating itself to the other . |
| 11 | A hand launching itself into the air |
| 12 | The Bure Valley Railway promoting itself as the ‘ Broadline Line ’ is designed to capture the attention of the high number of tourists attracted to that region . |
| 13 | ‘ Naughty cat , she would n't let you in then , ’ he chides the moggie disporting itself on the carpet . |
| 14 | We see the struggle asserting itself in the preface to his poem ‘ The Glass Dog ’ ( Flowers for Hitler ) : |
| 15 | ‘ They must have got quite a shock seeing a 4lb 6oz bird sunning itself on the garden wall , ’ said Gary . |
| 16 | Lord Cledwyn , the Opposition leader in the Lords , warned that destabilisation of Warsaw Pact countries might see history repeating itself in the balkanisation of Eastern Europe and in ethnic and territorial disputes . |
| 17 | Archie Hamilton , son of the third Baron Hamilton , who served as Parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Thatcher , is another example of the old tradition accommodating itself to the new spirit in the party . |
| 18 | Even though there was a silencer on the gun , the detonation and the whack of the bullet burying itself in the floorboards were unmistakable . |
| 19 | But in this … chapter we are specially concerned with movements of prices ranging over still longer periods than those for which the most farsighted dealers in futures generally make their reckoning : we have to consider the volume of production adjusting itself to the conditions of the market , and the normal price being thus determined at the position of stable equilibrium of normal demand and normal supply . |
| 20 | Reimbursement of medical , hospital and treatment expenses while on holiday ( including emergency dental treatment ) and hotel and repatriation expenses to the British Isles necessarily incurred arising from injury sustained or sickness declaring itself during the period of the holiday ( including those of any one person required on medical advice to accompany the Insured Person ) . |