Example sentences of "[vb past] itself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 2 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 3 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |
| 6 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 7 | We must now return to the general situation in which 5 Corps found itself at the end of 15 May . |
| 8 | Once again the country which complained most about the policy was Britain , which found itself in the position of being a ‘ net contributor ’ to the EC after 1973 , paying far more into the EC than it received back . |
| 9 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
| 10 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 11 | Having ridden the contradictions , the paper suddenly found itself in the middle of them . |
| 12 | On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It found itself amongst the stockwork of veins and rich ore was being found continually . |
| 15 | The Roman Catholic Church pronounced itself against the coup while conceding that " effective action " was needed to eradicate terrorism , drug-trafficking and corruption . |
| 16 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 17 | As the nappy fell apart , a rich brown revelation mingled itself with the scent of talcum powder . |
| 18 | By the late 1560's work was well in hand up at Keswick and in the formative years of the society the northern mining concentrated itself amongst the mountains and valleys around Keswick . |
| 19 | The child 's parents , and especially his father , were perceived as the obstacle to a realization of his Oedipus wishes ; so his infantile ego fortified itself for the carrying out of the repression by erecting this same obstacle within itself . |
| 20 | In their remarkable study , Stallybrass and White argue that ‘ the bourgeois subject continuously defined and re-defined itself through the exclusion of what it marked out as ‘ low' ’ — as dirty , repulsive , noisy , contaminating . |
| 21 | ‘ Not his words only , but the image of his golden head burned itself through the scales on my eyes ! |
| 22 | His face came down to her , passed by her own , and buried itself in the copper cloak . |
| 23 | The car left the road , smashed through an 8ft garden wall and then buried itself in the house , on a busy corner of a housing estate at Matson in Gloucester . |
| 24 | And above their heads the monitors showed captions rolling , and the faint tinny music entwined itself into the noise , and the screens blacked . |
| 25 | She was too lost in misery , and when she found herself being lifted to her feet embarrassment added itself to the misery . |
| 26 | On 19 December 1960 a new Cuban — Soviet agreement was announced , by which the USSR committed itself to the purchase of 2.7 m.t . |
| 27 | The Commonwealth as a whole committed itself to the promotion of sustainable development and alleviation of poverty , with the more prosperous Commonwealth members promising " an adequate flow of resources " to alleviate the debt burdens of the most needy . |
| 28 | A permanent consultation mechanism was established and the public sector committed itself to the privatization of state enterprises except for certain strategic concerns , and to the substantial reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy , of expenditure and of the public deficit . |
| 29 | The CNAA committed itself to the Diploma . |
| 30 | In October 1984 , The Economist , remarkably enough , committed itself to the view that ‘ Mrs Thatcher is not now going to win the miners ’ strike outright . ’ |