Example sentences of "that [verb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light .
2 In addition , she is keenly involved in Headway ( I 'm the Avon patron ) , the Frenchay based charity that concerns itself with the effects and remedial care following head injuries .
3 There was a restlessness in the time that communicated itself everywhere and to everyone , that communicated itself to the very sounds in Britain 's air , the stones beneath Britain 's feet .
4 We merely became accustomed to the general life of the common birds and animals , and to the appearances of trees and clouds and everything upon the surface that showed itself to the naked eye ’ .
5 Among the multiple realities there is one that presents itself as the reality par excellence .
6 ‘ It is the only thing that presents itself with the information we have at the moment . ’
7 I thought , a laugh being pretty well the only dealing with the truth that offered itself at the moment , and so nothing to run down .
8 Leslie had clearly avoided this mishap , for the face that presented itself at the church to the sound of other bells was unblemished — only so very much older than that of the newly-commissioned boy of the Stirling studio photograph , taken but three years before .
9 With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites .
10 It is a dramatic change , and not one that recommends itself to the city 's residents .
11 now we 're going to finish off with a sport that enjoys itself in the summer … grass track racing … thousands were out over the weekend to watch the midland finals in Worcestershire
12 When the knights reformed in front of them they suddenly launched a wild shout , and welded into one moving weapon , that aimed itself at the enemy beyond the river , and this time did not halt .
13 The break with this structure of belonging can be announced only through a certain organisation , a certain strategic arrangement which , within the field of metaphysical opposition , uses the strengths of the field to turn its own stratagems against it , producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself throughout the entire system , fissuring it in every direction and thoroughly delimiting it .
14 This means , in effect , that each Alu sequence that inserts itself into the chromosomes carries with it the means to get out again and reinsert itself somewhere else .
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