Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] itself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 2 | Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment . |
| 3 | As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine . |
| 4 | Oxford Polytechnic , deriving from a further education institution with poor facilities , had a struggle to establish itself with the CNAA . |
| 5 | Anxiously , they waited as Delaney 's black figure lowered itself into the fog , and was lost , bit by bit , from view , suggesting a primordial creature descending into a tropical , mist-covered swamp . |
| 6 | Volkswagen , which is the largest European car producer , has in recent months aligned itself behind the car protectionist lobby because , heavily dependent on high cost German labour , it is aware that it will have difficulties in beating off Japanese cars when they are imported without quotas into Europe . |
| 7 | Protestantism concerned itself with the inscription of dogma , attention to the text , was more emphatically scriptural . |
| 8 | Certainly , as his mind prepared itself for the acceptance of the |
| 9 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 10 | It was then that a familiar figure detached itself from the shadows of the trees and moved out into the dim orange light of one of the streetlamps . |
| 11 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 12 | This parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes , sea-squirts , etc. 65 . |
| 13 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
| 14 | The DUC disassociated itself from the arson and monkeywrenching , and remained independent of the and-nuclear movement . |
| 15 | Though still blind and naked , the chick manoeuvres itself inside the nest until an egg is lodged between its back and the side of the nest . |
| 16 | Utopia projected itself into the future instead . |
| 17 | On the other hand , a court of equity addresses itself to the amount of costs that the mortgagee should be allowed as a condition of redemption . |
| 18 | Over 200 companies have signed the ICC 's Business Charter for Sustainable Development , which urges industry to commit itself to the development of products which require the minimum amount of energy and natural resources to produce , and which can be recycled or disposed of safely after use . |
| 19 | This is a family-run hotel and the management prides itself on the fact that Citalia guests have always received a warm welcome . |
| 20 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 21 | The image of ‘ basket power ’ possessed by women cooperators was a formidable and persistent one , and the guild applied itself to the task of arousing women to a sense of this leverage . |
| 22 | Yet each individual bout articulates itself within the framework of the history of boxing , known and unknown . |
| 23 | By the late 1560's work was well in hand up at Keswick and in the formative years of the society the northern mining concentrated itself amongst the mountains and valleys around Keswick . |
| 24 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 25 | A permanent consultation mechanism was established and the public sector committed itself to the privatization of state enterprises except for certain strategic concerns , and to the substantial reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy , of expenditure and of the public deficit . |
| 26 | In its extreme form , therefore , empiricism limits itself to the results of direct observation and virtually denies the value of theory since this is generalization removed from first-hand observation . |
| 27 | The CNAA committed itself to the Diploma . |
| 28 | I had begun to rise earlier and earlier , sometimes watching the sun lift itself off the horizon , first red , then yellow , then white . |
| 29 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 30 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |