Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation . |
| 2 | Another kind developed in which the elaborated worm did not attach itself to the sea floor but continued to crawl about and secreted a small conical tent of shell under which it could huddle when in danger . |
| 3 | And , like mine , it did not lend itself to the sort of conclusion Berkeley wanted to draw , to the effect that we are not justified in calling material things hot and cold . |
| 4 | Masculine development did not detach itself from the nourishing mother . |
| 5 | The lasting pattern of this world-market agriculture did not establish itself until the period of the imperialist world economy of 1870–1930 . |
| 6 | In accordance , however , with the normal practice , the court considered the whole case and did not confine itself to the objections in point of form to the surrejoinder . |
| 7 | This view did not commend itself to the pope . |
| 8 | No wonder the C of E had not endeared itself to the working classes , Spruce reflected . |