Example sentences of "[v-ing] itself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It allows the vehicle to manoeuvre without tearing itself apart on the back axle . |
| 2 | The fringing reef came into view as well : a ragged line of breakers , huge walls of spume and the ocean hurling itself relentlessly against the coral . |
| 3 | Our house building ought to develop naturally … a natural architecture is a rational healthy builder 's art expressing itself soberly through the medium of masonry and carpentry . ’ |
| 4 | Again , as in The Graduate , it was a hit song on the soundtrack , in this case , Fred Neil 's ‘ Everybody 's Talkin ’ , that gave the film a contemporary resonance , lodging itself more in the ear than in the eye or mind . |
| 5 | Its articulation is easier and hence its flexibility is greater than that of the trumpet , but its proper place is the brass or wind band and it has not succeeded in establishing itself permanently in the orchestra . |
| 6 | Can this group remain within a united working class or will it pursue selfish interests , separating itself further from the remainder of the working class ? |
| 7 | A group in the chaotic stage tries to overcome uncertainty and ambiguity by flinging itself headlong into the task in hand without giving enough , if any , attention to the process . |
| 8 | This makes recovery , especially from word initial errors , extremely difficult , since the matching process has no way of realigning itself correctly with the input . |
| 9 | The prey was distancing itself fast from the hunters ; the scent , as Myeloski knew , was still cold and getting colder . |
| 10 | Woe betide a Soviet regime which shoots Russian and Eastern Ukrainian miners , the elite of the working class in the supposed land of the proletariat , and does so moreover in an era when suppression of news is no longer possible and society is rapidly organising itself autonomously of the state . |
| 11 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 12 | He belonged to the old-fashioned generation which believed in covering itself carefully from the sun . |