Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Buckingham Palace again tried to distance itself from the riddle . |
| 2 | The corpse seemed to brace itself against the tilt but that could not be , unless — |
| 3 | It heralded the end of the session , as Danny 's mood seemed to transmit itself to the others and they too became restless . |
| 4 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 5 | And then , before they quite met , the smaller shadow seemed to detach itself from the wall and move out into space . |
| 6 | The church of the apostolic age sought to identify itself with the ‘ poor ’ whom Jesus had declared blessed ( Luke 6 : 20 ) ; or had he meant the ‘ poor in spirit ’ ( Matt. 5 : 3 ) , the humble-hearted , who could hold their property without pride as means to support the destitute ? |
| 7 | Enver Hoxha 's widow Nexhmije Hoxha , who had headed the Communist-dominated Democratic Front until December 1990 , but who had subsequently been expelled from the party as it sought to rid itself of the hardline old guard , was arrested on Dec. 4 to stand trial for corruption , as was Rita Marko , a politburo member for 34 years until July 1990 . |
| 8 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 9 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 10 | I mean the erm , the effects of the recession in North America , the great fear of lay offs amongst white collar workers in North America erm began to show itself towards the end of last year , and indeed major corporations were reducing their business travel by cutting back on their travel budgets erm and that was beginning to come through by October/November last year in erm reduced long haul travel . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , in Orange , it was time for Christmas , and the section started to organise itself for the festivities . |
| 12 | A Buryat tale relates how one of their groups decided to link itself with the Russians because their own khan chopped off heads for crimes which merited mere birching in Muscovite territory . |
| 13 | This may have been no more than wishful thinking , and during the campaign the Conservative Party managed to project itself as the most radical of the contenders for office . |
| 14 | Their skills were in demand as China struggled to adapt itself to the age of new technology . |
| 15 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 16 | But even the French navy had to divide itself between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coasts and the Russians had to maintain a small separate fleet in the Black Sea . |
| 17 | Among the smaller opposition parties the JCP fought a largely defensive campaign in which it attempted to dissociate itself from the discredited communist regimes of Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses . |