Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [verb] itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 45 Mainwaring Road the upper maisonette was still advertising itself for sale — no less than six boards competing for the passerby 's attention . |
| 2 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 3 | At the conference , in the final plenary session , what was emerging was that the whole conference was virtually treating itself like handmaidens to the medical profession . |
| 4 | It was as though the very innermost lining of my already emptied stomach was violently detaching itself into long , coppery green strands of rejected bile . |
| 5 | This seems to suggest that EModE was consciously directing itself towards modern RP — in a state of ‘ becoming ’ RP , so to speak . |
| 6 | His literary prowess was now enforcing itself upon him with the urgency of a destiny , as with all true writers , ‘ born , not made ’ . |
| 7 | The party was also to redefine itself as " the vanguard of all working people " instead of " the vanguard of the working class " . |