Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] itself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incredible , bloody incredible , that the Service should have found itself within a whisker of escape , within a few heartbeats … |
| 2 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 3 | But it might occasionally happen that , rather than give way , the Government might prefer to reconstruct itself as a Coalition Government with the support of some middle-of-the-road members of the Opposition . |
| 4 | But in practical terms , the organizational imperative to avoid appeal means modifying demands in the course of negotiations if there is any suggestion that the agency might have to defend itself in an appeal : ‘ we try to see ’ , said a senior officer , ‘ there are no grounds for reasonable objection . ’ |
| 5 | Such a context might have presented itself during the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 6 | Had they followed the example of Aled Williams , who scored a scintillating try around the Neath cover , the game might have released itself from the siege strangehold . |
| 7 | It was extraordinary that lips so tight could produce any sound , that Lorrimer 's voice , high and distorted , could have forced itself through the vocal cords without splitting them . |
| 8 | The eagle was so evidently , so ferociously beautiful ; one would have thought that it could have impressed itself upon the most unwilling beholder . |
| 9 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 10 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 11 | Thomas felt that if this was one of the shapechangers then it would have transformed itself into a creature which would have been untouched by the explosion . |
| 12 | Through the process described above , both parties will have a detailed understanding of the needs of each other and as a bonus , management will have displayed itself as a caring , approachable employer . |
| 13 | If the European Fighter Aircraft fails to go ahead , the Government will have to brace itself for a further jobs bombshell . |
| 14 | The Government will have to defend itself at an international legal inquiry against allegations that the SAS operated a shoot-to-kill policy . |
| 15 | So the market will have to prepare itself for a non-Tory government . |
| 16 | Secondly , the purchaser will wish to protect itself in the sale agreement against any risks which it was unable to identify during the negotiations but which are discovered after completion and to ensure it is compensated against these by the vendor . |
| 17 | The merchant bank or broker will charge a commission for procuring the subscribers and may agree to subscribe itself for the balance if it fails to procure sufficient interest from its clients . |