Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] itself on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Far behind us our wake exhausted itself on the banks , and the river was still again . |
| 3 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 4 | Each bird disposed itself on the sea like a great white flower . |
| 5 | The imagery imprinted itself on the minds of a whole generation of parents who had lost young children . |
| 6 | Emilia 's subsequent ill-temper spent itself on the domestic staff , and she interpreted his own efforts to placate the ruffled servants as treachery . |