Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 2 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most obvious illustration of the extent to which trade was forcing itself upon the often unwilling attention of traditional diplomacy was the creation of a new type of diplomat most clearly typified by the commercial attaché . |
| 4 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 5 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |
| 6 | It was sunning itself on the path . |
| 7 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 8 | From the other side of the room , from the shadows of the wood-store where they had entered , something was dragging itself across the floor towards them … |
| 9 | In some haste he drafted a brief manifesto to show how the Conservative Party was adapting itself to the post-Reform Act political scene . |
| 10 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |