Example sentences of "had [vb pp] itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had arranged itself around bright canvas bags and wicker baskets in the part-shade of a fishing-boat . |
| 2 | Or meant to have replied , but perhaps she had not , perhaps the knowledge of later years had imposed itself on that first memory . |
| 3 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 4 | The question turned off Lomax 's interest like a tap that realises it had flooded itself into deep water . |
| 5 | By the time that the appeal had reached this Board , the defendant 's case had reduced itself to seven heads . |
| 6 | Following the Coopers merger with Deloittes , Pearson had found itself with three firms of auditors — Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen in the US and Coopers & Lybrand in the rest of the world — a situation it found cumbersome and expensive . |
| 7 | And for composers desperately intent on forging a language that had purged itself of any historical residues , a musical form that by its very nature was reliant upon an external stimulus , that needed the prop of a text and a scenario , was intrinsically suspicious . |
| 8 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 9 | On the slow descent to Bristol airport a creature had attached itself to one of the wings . |
| 10 | Disproportionately she had longed , in the interminable wastes of adolescence , in the grey and monotonous steppes , and some of the longing had attached itself to this night , this one night of the year , when others ( she knew from school friends , from the radio , from novels ) , when others went to parties and celebrated whatever was about to be . |
| 11 | But organized science had allied itself with Big Business and Government ; it had no interest in the individual — its meat was statistics ! |
| 12 | This was the first record of contact with a physic garden on the continent and so , within a few years , the Apothecaries ' garden had established itself in botanical circles . |
| 13 | A resilient alliance between Protestant theology and Aristotelian philosophy , which had established itself in different parts of Europe , remained particularly strong in Scotland during the first half of the seventeenth century . |