Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 2 | Oxford Polytechnic , deriving from a further education institution with poor facilities , had a struggle to establish itself with the CNAA . |
| 3 | Anxiously , they waited as Delaney 's black figure lowered itself into the fog , and was lost , bit by bit , from view , suggesting a primordial creature descending into a tropical , mist-covered swamp . |
| 4 | Protestantism concerned itself with the inscription of dogma , attention to the text , was more emphatically scriptural . |
| 5 | Certainly , as his mind prepared itself for the acceptance of the |
| 6 | In the stroboscopic view , the giant pistons were the only things moving — until a figure detached itself from the wall , its grey colour exactly that of the background steel . |
| 7 | It was then that a familiar figure detached itself from the shadows of the trees and moved out into the dim orange light of one of the streetlamps . |
| 8 | This parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes , sea-squirts , etc. 65 . |
| 9 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
| 10 | The DUC disassociated itself from the arson and monkeywrenching , and remained independent of the and-nuclear movement . |
| 11 | Though still blind and naked , the chick manoeuvres itself inside the nest until an egg is lodged between its back and the side of the nest . |
| 12 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 13 | On the other hand , a court of equity addresses itself to the amount of costs that the mortgagee should be allowed as a condition of redemption . |
| 14 | Over 200 companies have signed the ICC 's Business Charter for Sustainable Development , which urges industry to commit itself to the development of products which require the minimum amount of energy and natural resources to produce , and which can be recycled or disposed of safely after use . |
| 15 | That is , where the Berlin Secession defined itself against the Wilhelmine state , its Viennese counterpart defined itself against the bourgeois values of the Ringstrasse culture of the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 16 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 17 | This is a family-run hotel and the management prides itself on the fact that Citalia guests have always received a warm welcome . |
| 18 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 19 | The image of ‘ basket power ’ possessed by women cooperators was a formidable and persistent one , and the guild applied itself to the task of arousing women to a sense of this leverage . |
| 20 | Yet each individual bout articulates itself within the framework of the history of boxing , known and unknown . |
| 21 | By the late 1560's work was well in hand up at Keswick and in the formative years of the society the northern mining concentrated itself amongst the mountains and valleys around Keswick . |
| 22 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 23 | A permanent consultation mechanism was established and the public sector committed itself to the privatization of state enterprises except for certain strategic concerns , and to the substantial reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy , of expenditure and of the public deficit . |
| 24 | In its extreme form , therefore , empiricism limits itself to the results of direct observation and virtually denies the value of theory since this is generalization removed from first-hand observation . |
| 25 | I had begun to rise earlier and earlier , sometimes watching the sun lift itself off the horizon , first red , then yellow , then white . |
| 26 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 27 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
| 28 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 29 | The affinity between dog and cat reveals itself in the number of equi-status or near-equi-status traits they have in common ; and the differences between dog and cat appear more sharply when the affinity patterns are articulated in greater detail by means of diagnostic frames . |
| 30 | Lying on a pallet in the downstairs chamber , the deceased woman laid out upstairs , the only sounds came from the cat cleaning itself by the hearth and an owl hooting raucously outside . |