Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated . |
2 | Specifically , it is to query the new received wisdom , that the alternative party to the Conservatives in British politics has only to take the consumerist road , and present itself as the protector of the individual against Big Business and Big Government . |
3 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
4 | During this period the Board has also had to find its feet , build up its staff resources to the planned level and concern itself with the production of some weighty discussion documents . |
5 | Criticism , he argued , should be opposed to this kind of scholarship , and concern itself with the specifically literary properties of texts . |
6 | If it travelled up into the skull it might ricochet off the skull table and bed itself in the bone . |