Example sentences of "[vb past] itself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |
| 2 | GEC , under the guidance of Lord Weinstock , built itself up into the largest manufacturing employer in the UK , producing a wide range of products from telecommunications to defence electronics . |
| 3 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 4 | At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet . |
| 5 | If the law concerned itself instead with the good faith of the doctor , consent would be only one of several relevant criteria . |
| 6 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 7 | Gripping the chain with determination the ferry hauled itself bravely through the grey twilight . |
| 8 | The state-controlled television threw itself vigorously into the fray . |
| 9 | Then , when the heated tyre gradually cooled , it contracted and drew the joints together and bedded itself firmly round the woodwork . |
| 10 | A little round hill , a sort of headland , thrust itself out into the estuary slightly to her right , and beyond it , she thought she saw a great bay , a giant bite out of the smooth slope of grassy shore . |
| 11 | By joining the pro-Iraqi camp the PLO effectively cut itself off from the moderating influences ( and financial backing ) of the Gulf states and Egypt , and rendered highly unlikely any prospects for a resumption of US-Palestinian talks ( broken off in June — see pp. 37547 ; 37626-27 ) . |
| 12 | She had no friends , for she repelled intimacy as though it were an insult , but she had a position : her manner imposed itself relentlessly upon the indifferent and the unconcerned . |
| 13 | Libya barricaded itself off from the outside world yesterday to ‘ mourn ’ the sixth anniversary of the American air raids on Tripoli and Benghazi , mounted in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in the bombing of a Berlin night club in which two American soldiers died . |
| 14 | Here are a number of mill sites dating to the Domesday era ; the cloth industry firmly settled itself here by the 12–13th centuries . |
| 15 | Love is like the perfect pearl of the sea , but more precious , a pearl of the transcendent ; it did not come from the earth but from the pollen of the stars and sowed itself here like the seeds of the palms . |
| 16 | In my view , it was a monumental error by the Soviet Union to withdraw its diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv following the six-day war in 1967 because , in doing so , it kept itself out of the area as a serious negotiator . |
| 17 | Christmas has come early for me with this one — another mysterious release that planted itself firmly on the Vibes desk . |
| 18 | In autumn 1981 France associated itself instead with the EEC initiative on the neutralisation of Afghanistan . |
| 19 | Its existence was indicated by a thick belt of trees , beech and oak as well as willow , where the clay gradually reared itself out of the silt . |
| 20 | The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure . |
| 21 | For one day , it seems the country gave itself over to the pursuit of all things musical , in a wholehearted and thoroughly charitably-minded fashion . |
| 22 | The army put itself forward as the vehicle for such policies , and in taking radical domestic and international action the army could count on a measure of support from the rural community . |
| 23 | Finally , Stamford put itself forward in the 1960s as one of the sites for the new generation of universities , citing the town 's ‘ university history ’ in support of its case . |
| 24 | Unsurprisingly , it confined itself largely to the home — to the space between the sink and the bed . |
| 25 | Half a breath dimly lit itself exactly in the middle of his head . |
| 26 | Sir : Your otherwise sound leading article ( 'Private gifts for public arts ' , 11 October ) shot itself hypocritically in the foot in its last paragraph by expressing irritation with corporate executives who ‘ parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ’ money' . |
| 27 | A WEAK US economy reflected itself strongly at the second Museum of Flight Auction at Santa Monica on October 5 & 6 . |
| 28 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 29 | Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas has , by its own proclamation , set itself up as the Bible for traffic planners . |