Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 2 | Enver Hoxha 's widow Nexhmije Hoxha , who had headed the Communist-dominated Democratic Front until December 1990 , but who had subsequently been expelled from the party as it sought to rid itself of the hardline old guard , was arrested on Dec. 4 to stand trial for corruption , as was Rita Marko , a politburo member for 34 years until July 1990 . |
| 3 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 4 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 5 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |
| 6 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 7 | But even the French navy had to divide itself between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts and the Russians had to maintain a small separate fleet in the Black Sea . |
| 8 | It was yielding some ore but had found itself amongst the old bottoms out of which " the eyes had been picked " . |
| 9 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 10 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 11 | Despite its shattering defeat in 1931 the Labour Party had established itself as the dominant political force opposed to the Conservative Party , as the unchallenged controller of local government on the major coalfields and as the Party to which the great majority of trade-union officials gave their loyalty . |
| 12 | Visigothic architecture had established itself before the Moslem invasion and was flourishing from c. 450–720 . |
| 13 | Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe . |