Example sentences of "[prep] itself [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's like a B-movie from a past of happier memories , turned against itself by the one British director who truly understands the mode . |
2 | er the E C has really bought upon itself with the common agricultural policy a big animal that is very slow to move and it 's not really any advantages of each individual . |
3 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |
4 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
5 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
6 | Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky . |