Example sentences of "[v-ing] itself [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside in the corridor , his mind still easing itself in to the thought that he was now an agent , an M16 man , Carrington met Desmond Morton . |
| 2 | ( The country was still sorting itself out after the Election . ) |
| 3 | ‘ It 's sending itself on to the Shuttle . |
| 4 | This is bound to be seen as further evidence that Britain risks cutting itself off from the mainstream of European integration because of hostility both to economic and monetary union and to eventual political union . |
| 5 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 6 | Just such an episode has been playing itself out on the American financial stage . |
| 7 | But the day had insisted on playing itself out in the idyllic pastoral mode . |
| 8 | Her flesh shrank away from the paw 's touch , as if gathering and compressing itself on to the bone . |
| 9 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |