Example sentences of "and [vb past] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 2 | And that curtain went from the window right across the room and pinned itself into the piano , pinned the curtains into the piano . |
| 3 | In their remarkable study , Stallybrass and White argue that ‘ the bourgeois subject continuously defined and re-defined itself through the exclusion of what it marked out as ‘ low' ’ — as dirty , repulsive , noisy , contaminating . |
| 4 | There are even suggestions that the US appoint its own Chancellor and rid itself of the high-handed monetary czars who ride unchecked across the economic landscape . |
| 5 | By converting land into pasture for several years , the land has a chance to recover and rid itself of the heavy level of chemicals in its soil . |
| 6 | It ricocheted off a bulkhead , impossibly loud in the confined space , and buried itself in the fleshy part of Terhune 's thigh . |
| 7 | His face came down to her , passed by her own , and buried itself in the copper cloak . |
| 8 | Her bullet tore through Ma Katz and spent itself against the wall . |
| 9 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 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 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 13 | One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pages and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain . |
| 14 | It was large and green , and wound itself along the branch with reptilian patience . |