Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] itself in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of a National Government , then , had implanted itself in the mind of the King , and in that of his closest adviser , as a possible solution to the economic crisis which many felt to be imminent . |
| 2 | Following our view of sadism , we should say that the destructive component had entrenched itself in the super-ego and turned against the ego . |
| 3 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 4 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 5 | An alien presence had established itself in the heart of the town and people who had no connection with the crime under investigation or any other would feel uneasy until they were gone . |