Example sentences of "and [verb] itself in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 2 | Cerebral oedema is thought to occur in a large proportion of patients towards the end of the treatment cycle , and manifests itself in a number of neuropsychiatric symptoms . |
| 3 | The romantic fantasy is nurtured in our youth with Enid Blyton books and ghost stories and manifests itself in the invention of tunnel myths . |
| 4 | It spun around , hurling its axe , which whirred over the assassin 's head and buried itself in a luckless thief behind him . |
| 5 | It ricocheted off a bulkhead , impossibly loud in the confined space , and buried itself in the fleshy part of Terhune 's thigh . |
| 6 | His face came down to her , passed by her own , and buried itself in the copper cloak . |
| 7 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 8 | He saw Ratagan 's axe flash like a star and bury itself in a hairy snout , splintering black blood . |
| 9 | Someone claimed they saw a huge wormlike thing slither out of the meteorite and bury itself in the earth . ’ |
| 10 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 11 | Alexei loosed , and the arrow leapt from the bow and embedded itself in the wooden spike which rose from the dome of a house two streets away . |
| 12 | Lambert heard something crack and thrash itself in the slipstream , but the plane still flew and although there was stink coming from the engine it was not on fire . |
| 13 | Their car skidded in gravel , flipped up and over like a pancake and lodged itself in a sundered tank . |
| 14 | One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pages and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain . |
| 15 | It provokes an answer , anticipates it and structures itself in the answer 's direction . ’ |
| 16 | If the parent bird is aquatic and is making its display on water , it may turn on its side , flap one wing awkwardly in the air and paddle itself in a circle as if it is hopelessly crippled . |
| 17 | Despite the increase of unbelief , beginning well before the Origin of Species and showing itself in a whole new genre of novels of religious doubt starting with J. A. Froude 's Nemesis of Faith ( 1849 ) , the late Victorian period saw the enormous expansion of the missionary enterprise and of church building . |
| 18 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |