Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 2 | Dope was n't , but the drug legal advice service ‘ Release ’ which concerned itself with the increasing number of busts — and junkies — began operating in West London . |
| 3 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 4 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 5 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 6 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 7 | Once again the country which complained most about the policy was Britain , which found itself in the position of being a ‘ net contributor ’ to the EC after 1973 , paying far more into the EC than it received back . |
| 8 | The black construct before her split , spun into a thin loop , fleshed into a globe , flipped inside out to reveal a hovering pink mass , which detached itself from the main bulk and drifted some distance away . |
| 9 | As has been noted earlier , TANU 's cadres felt that nation-building could be achieved only through the control of the centre — a view which extended itself to the press . |
| 10 | For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual . |
| 11 | She 'd loved the stones it smoothed , and its wildness when it flung itself over the promenade wall , scattering gravel and driftwood . |
| 12 | It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief . |
| 13 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 14 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
| 15 | It found itself amongst the stockwork of veins and rich ore was being found continually . |
| 16 | BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s . |
| 17 | It unravelled itself across the page . |
| 18 | January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles . |
| 19 | Founded 1259 , open to visitors during daylight hours , it proclaimed itself with the modesty of an institution whose confidence in its purposes was rock-solid . |
| 20 | Jordan had turned to Saudi Arabia for its oil supplies when it committed itself to the UN embargo on trade with Iraq and Kuwait [ see p. 37639 ] . |
| 21 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 22 | It showed itself at the turn of the century in a rash of gang fights , stabbings and street robberies , and in some parts of London there were excited rumours of youthful gangs armed with guns . |
| 23 | It adapted itself to the world in which it was being promulgated . |
| 24 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |
| 25 | Then it formed itself into the semblance of a frown , the whole countenance becoming stern , implacable . |
| 26 | In general it allied itself with the conservative sector , knowing it could then rely on the wealth and status of this group and , in return , offering a value system that supported their regimes . |
| 27 | Thunder flashes , Roman candles and other pyrotechnics would enliven its passage until , a spinning hoop of flame , it launched itself over the cliff , described a brief trajectory and plunged into the sea , never to be seen again . |