Example sentences of "[vb past] itself in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Having ridden the contradictions , the paper suddenly found itself in the middle of them . |
| 4 | On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His face came down to her , passed by her own , and buried itself in the copper cloak . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We should , however , appreciate the close relationship that existed between the philosophical beliefs and the political doctrine , which not only manifested itself in the convergence of interests with respect to social problems and class politics , but also provided the proposed reform in education ( and other attempts to ‘ educate ’ young workers , such as the club movement ) with a certain authority . |
| 9 | The legacy of Britain 's largest ever baby boom , dating from the early years of this century , manifested itself in the growth of the numbers of people of pensionable age in the 1960s and 1970s and the dramatic increase in the numbers of the very elderly in the 1980s . |
| 10 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |
| 11 | The tightening of monetary policy throughout the industrialized world in 1989 and early 1990 manifested itself in the form of higher interest rates , as the major instrument to curb consumer demand and ease inflation . |
| 12 | Corruption revealed itself in the guise of brutalisation . |
| 13 | In his Cours de composition musicale , for example , the Reformation is made a culprit for the extremes of Individualism : ‘ Subdued by the Christian faith , Pride that formidable enemy of man rarely showed itself in the soul of the artist in the Middle Ages . |
| 14 | Under the rule of the Incas this inertia expressed itself in the stagnation of commerce … in the lack of vitality and the absence of originality in the arts , in dogmatism in science , and in the rareness of even the simplest inventions . |
| 15 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 16 | But it is notable that this convention , universal in tragedy , never established itself in the crime film . |
| 17 | Evening fell early over Lydia 's garden while the rest of the valley preened itself in the setting sun . |
| 18 | As there was no piano in the field , Betty recorded her own music but , on the day , the only power to plug the recording machine into presented itself in the shape of an ice cream van . |
| 19 | A fly drowned itself in the puddle . |
| 20 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 21 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 22 | It was when they decided to return to shore that a terrible storm unleashed itself in the Moray Firth . |