Example sentences of "it [verb] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 2 | For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual . |
| 3 | She 'd loved the stones it smoothed , and its wildness when it flung itself over the promenade wall , scattering gravel and driftwood . |
| 4 | It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief . |
| 5 | You watch it peel itself into the sea . |
| 6 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 7 | It disguises itself in the trappings of its rival ’ ( p. 1 13 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk . |
| 10 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
| 11 | It found itself amongst the stockwork of veins and rich ore was being found continually . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) Where the creditor leaves it to the debtor to obtain the signature of a third party surety on documents of guarantee or on documents charging the surety 's principal or important asset , it exposes itself to the possibility of being restrained under applicable equitable doctrines . |
| 13 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 14 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 15 | BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s . |
| 16 | It unravelled itself across the page . |
| 17 | January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles . |
| 18 | Founded 1259 , open to visitors during daylight hours , it proclaimed itself with the modesty of an institution whose confidence in its purposes was rock-solid . |
| 19 | Jordan had turned to Saudi Arabia for its oil supplies when it committed itself to the UN embargo on trade with Iraq and Kuwait [ see p. 37639 ] . |
| 20 | It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth . |
| 21 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 22 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 23 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 24 | It showed itself at the turn of the century in a rash of gang fights , stabbings and street robberies , and in some parts of London there were excited rumours of youthful gangs armed with guns . |
| 25 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 26 | It hurls itself around the island and in seconds the sea is alive , ugly waves crashing over the boats , white horses flicking over the surface on the hooves of the wind . |
| 27 | It adapted itself to the world in which it was being promulgated . |
| 28 | It promotes itself as the best candidate to advise the government on energy matters . |
| 29 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 30 | It disgraced itself on the Cambrian Coast Express some weeks ago and was hauled back ignominiously to the works where a tremendous flap occurred as to who paid for the necessary . |