Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 2 | This body was to turn itself into the Labour Party in 1906 . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most obvious illustration of the extent to which trade was forcing itself upon the often unwilling attention of traditional diplomacy was the creation of a new type of diplomat most clearly typified by the commercial attaché . |
| 4 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 5 | In some haste he drafted a brief manifesto to show how the Conservative Party was adapting itself to the post-Reform Act political scene . |