Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] itself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Improvements in the general conditions of blacks had taken place between Johnson 's era , when white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan articulated deeply-held sentiments , when at least three hundred and fifty blacks were illegally lynched and mixed marriages were forbidden , and that of Ali , when conflict manifested itself in the Watts riots and radicalism came in the form of the black power movements . |
| 2 | Under the rule of the Incas this inertia expressed itself in the stagnation of commerce … in the lack of vitality and the absence of originality in the arts , in dogmatism in science , and in the rareness of even the simplest inventions . |
| 3 | Evening fell early over Lydia 's garden while the rest of the valley preened itself in the setting sun . |
| 4 | Corruption revealed itself in the guise of brutalisation . |
| 5 | History sold itself in the schools of interwar Britain . |
| 6 | But before long , the company found itself in the midst of the early 1980s ' recession , an event that , by Mr Garner 's own admission , nearly finished TI off for good . |
| 7 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 8 | By the time the British railway system stabilised itself in the late 1860s , every foot of rail between the Scottish border , the Pennine hills , the sea and the River Humber was controlled by the North-eastern Railway . |
| 9 | It was when they decided to return to shore that a terrible storm unleashed itself in the Moray Firth . |
| 10 | A final essential advantage for the party manifested itself in the general election campaign , when Attlee , for so long the ‘ unknown Opposition Leader ’ , came to notice as a sober and responsible figure apparently capable of assuming the reins of government . |
| 11 | A fly drowned itself in the puddle . |