Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] itself [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regard the existence of flourishing humanities research as an index to the civilisation of our society ; Labour , however , has committed itself prematurely to the establishment of a humanities research council . |
| 2 | It has lent itself admirably to the finishing of chairs , cabinets and desks — pieces where a very sensitive finish is required . |
| 3 | Pravda , the official Soviet newspaper , has positioned itself unambiguously on the side of the East German government 's authority . |
| 4 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 5 | The parachute has to be packed into a realistic pack — no self-respecting dropnik could be expected to cast itself off with a bundle of nylon in its arms . |
| 6 | I fear that our nation has set itself up for a decade of national strife . |
| 7 | Next morning dawns bright and clear ; the storm has blown itself out in the night . |
| 8 | ‘ Why , Sarella ? ’ he grated after a battle that seemed to draw itself out to the limits . |
| 9 | But as she sang , the voice seemed to lift itself out of the setting , out of the plot , and become a performance in itself . |
| 10 | Although the musical ascendancy of Italy did not begin to assert itself immediately after the deaths of Josquin and Isaac and their great contemporaries , Pierre de La Rue and Loyset Compere , its foundations were already laid . |
| 11 | The Butlins Empire has now had to market itself anew for the experienced package tourist ; a move from wooden chalets to brick-built country suites , from the Minehead Camp to Summerwest World . |
| 12 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 13 | This storm was not going to blow itself out in an hour — not even for him . |
| 14 | ‘ It began to overhaul itself only as a result of demands from the public and from individual scientists . ’ |
| 15 | He advised teachers ‘ to get to it ( the atomic theory ) as quickly as possible ’ , describing it as ‘ one of those short cuts with the human mind often takes to raise itself quickly to a height from which the relations between phenomena can be discerned at a glance ’ . |
| 16 | The United States was increasingly distracted by Vietnam , while in 1966 France began to disengage itself militarily from the alliance . |
| 17 | As far as it is possible to ascertain , this particular meaning appears to manifest itself only as a purely human phenomenon |
| 18 | Something was trying to pull itself out of the corridor wall . |
| 19 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |
| 20 | British trade unionism had found itself again after the traumas of the interwar years ; and it would have nothing to do with new-fangled ideas of socialist planning . |
| 21 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 22 | Her plaintive whisper had projected itself right round the Hall , but this had not put paid to her determination to secure his attention . |
| 23 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 24 | It had quietened itself down to a low , continuous burble . |
| 25 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
| 26 | Canary Wharf , the tallest building in Europe , fails to shape itself adequately at the fiftieth storey and is dull as a consequence . |
| 27 | She let her eyes sweep over him , reluctantly impressed at the way his magnificent physique still managed to display itself even under the bulky quilted trousers and jacket . |