Example sentences of "[verb] itself [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign .
2 Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases .
3 Paul Johnson 's production is a masterwork of clarity and while it does n't quite haul itself up to the avant-garde peaks of Celtic Frost , it hammers off at enough tangents to cover almost all the bases .
4 Left hemisphere control of sequential motor activity which lent itself readily to a symbolic gestural system may have been the evolutionary precursor to present day lateralisation of language .
5 Perhaps for this reason , it rarely commits itself entirely to a humanist framework .
6 The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase .
7 It had quietened itself down to a low , continuous burble .
8 The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure .
9 In the increasingly popular idiom of so-called ‘ performance arts ’ actors and audiences revel in non-verbal excesses in the belief that such behaviour addresses itself directly to the human soul and that all other forms of traditional theatre are disgustingly ‘ literary ’ .
10 The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented .
11 The assessment of this module lends itself readily to an integrated assignment where evidence may be generated which is appropriate for more than one outcome .
12 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 .
13 ( Here , in — and im — represent the same grammatical element : the prefix merely adapts itself phonetically to the initial consonant of the root . )
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