Example sentences of "[vb past] itself in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 2 | It ricocheted off a bulkhead , impossibly loud in the confined space , and buried itself in the fleshy part of Terhune 's thigh . |
| 3 | It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief . |
| 4 | A final essential advantage for the party manifested itself in the general election campaign , when Attlee , for so long the ‘ unknown Opposition Leader ’ , came to notice as a sober and responsible figure apparently capable of assuming the reins of government . |
| 5 | This manifested itself in the falling returns in grain collections for provisioning the towns and the Red Army . |
| 6 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 7 | Alexei loosed , and the arrow leapt from the bow and embedded itself in the wooden spike which rose from the dome of a house two streets away . |
| 8 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |
| 9 | One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pages and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain . |
| 10 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 11 | By the time the British railway system stabilised itself in the late 1860s , every foot of rail between the Scottish border , the Pennine hills , the sea and the River Humber was controlled by the North-eastern Railway . |
| 12 | As recession-hit Britain steadied itself in the seventies , the Gedge family made a drastic move . |