Example sentences of "it [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neuron Data , better known for its Nexpert expert system until it re-invented itself as a GUI development outfit , plans to push on into what it sees as a burgeoning market for software which can make an ISV 's job designing solutions which work across heterogeneous environments much easier . |
| 2 | It allies itself with no political party , no outside cause . |
| 3 | In fact it doubled itself in size every day . |
| 4 | Total marketing and sales expenses increased as it turns itself into a market-driven company to $24.3m , up 45% . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he sat , it revealed itself as a sticking-plaster , like a small moustache . |
| 7 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 8 | Moreover it is less than clear from the Bill what advantages are supposed to accrue to a school if it separates itself from a Local Authority , unless doing so is thought in general to be advantageous ( where , for instance , a Local Authority is unduly ‘ political ’ ) . |
| 9 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 10 | For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual . |
| 11 | It impresses itself upon you subliminally . |
| 12 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 13 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 14 | She 'd loved the stones it smoothed , and its wildness when it flung itself over the promenade wall , scattering gravel and driftwood . |
| 15 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 16 | It prides itself on this fact and points out in its brochure that while a large group can offer a wide range of services ‘ many of which you are unlikely to want … its investment managers suffer from real problems and conflicts of interest : supporting in-house issues , buying in-house unit trusts , helping its market makers and churning portfolios ’ . |
| 17 | It manifested itself in pedestrianised town centres and neighbourhood centres , in Radburn type housing layouts , by the provision of a direct footpath system quite separate from , and more direct than , the roads , and by bridges or underpasses where footpaths crossed the distributor roads . |
| 18 | It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief . |
| 19 | Poetry was the starting point for Formalist literary theory , and it lent itself in a very obvious way to the differential definition of literariness . |
| 20 | It changed itself into a stream of electronic signals and dived head-first into the TARDIS . ’ |
| 21 | You watch it peel itself into the sea . |
| 22 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 23 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 24 | It disguises itself in the trappings of its rival ’ ( p. 1 13 ) . |
| 25 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 26 | I did n't go into the parents ' room but went on beyond it to find myself in the rear part of the carriage , at the very end of the train . |
| 27 | Let us hope that it manifests itself through some outward show . |
| 28 | In modern clinical psychoanalysis it manifests itself as that part of the ego which represents a critical self-awareness which is both censorious and exhortatory , being the representative of standards , ideals , commands and prohibitions . |
| 29 | It manifests itself in diamonds as well as in coal , and it has more compounds than any other element . |
| 30 | The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk . |