Example sentences of "[vb pp] itself [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Their precious Republic has ruined itself over the Naples war . |
| 2 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 3 | The new UNO coalition government has clearly distanced itself from the Sandinista view of education . |
| 4 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 5 | The primarily Scottish Nova Scotia Company had established itself on the Atlantic seacoast north of Maine and the Canada Company had in 1628 captured the recently established French base at Quebec , but both of them had to give up their territory when peace was made with France in 1632 , and they faded into financial oblivion . |
| 6 | Founded in 1956 , the Flour Advisory Bureau has established itself as the UK 's central source of information on all matters relating to bread and flour . |
| 7 | DELOITTE Haskins & Sells in the UK has firmly established itself as the Zsa Zsa Gabor of the accountancy profession . |
| 8 | One unfortunate and totally false legend which has attached itself to the Tilford Bach Festival is the idea that the choir consists of local people . |