Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 2 | His concern about Germany manifested itself again in 1936 , when he accepted the post in Geneva of League of Nations high commissioner for German refugees , a position he held until 1938 . |
| 3 | Her heart emptied itself out , you could have tolled her and she would have sounded hollow and cracked . |
| 4 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 5 | The now familiar palpitating flutter in her heart made itself felt and the blood drummed unpleasantly in her head so that she feared she might lose her senses . |
| 6 | Jesus Jones , Pop Will Eat Itself … |
| 7 | Hard-faced , eclectic and distinctly dance-friendly , DF 118 are Pop Will Eat Itself on bad drugs , Big Audio Dynamite with a ring of low-rent authenticity and much more besides . |
| 8 | CHART stars Pop Will Eat Itself blew up when a mix-up stopped them appearing in Sweden . |
| 9 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 10 | SWEET JESUS : ‘ Albino Ballerina ’ / ‘ Your Baby Loves Me ’ West Midlands-based glamour pop four-piece follow their recent UK support spots with Pop Will Eat Itself with a double A-side |
| 11 | But first — as usual — we 're going to hear about Zac 's foreskin , Pop Will Eat Itself never flushing the toilet , drugs , ‘ stompers ’ , why smart drugs turn your piss dayglo green and why female pop journalists all want a good shagging . |
| 12 | Well , the thing is , Pop Will Eat Itself used to come down to my place when I first had it and absolutely f— the place up . |
| 13 | They have seen Pop Will Eat Itself close up and seen in them the terrible cost of debauchery . |
| 14 | Maddy : ‘ Who are Pop Will Eat Itself band ? ’ |
| 15 | ALAN VEGA was bottled offstage at London Kentish Town Town And Country Club last Saturday , November 3 , where the ex-Suicide cult hero was playing as special guest of Pop Will Eat Itself . |
| 16 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 17 | ALAN VEGA was bottled offstage at London Kentish Town Town And Country Club last Saturday , November 3 , where the ex-Suicide cult hero was playing as special guest of Pop Will Eat Itself . |
| 18 | Having opened the doors an hour late , the stewards proceed to examine in detail every bag and every pocket of Pop Will Eat Itself 's thousand-strong audience , wasting a further 45 minutes of everyone 's time while they play at being customs officers . |
| 19 | The Asshe genius manifested itself , late but truly , in what was to become a flourishing couture business , having moved by then from Highbury to Holborn . |
| 20 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 21 | THE provisonal government of Romania made itself very much less provisional yesterday by decreeing significant constitutional changes , including the fact that the country is no longer a socialist republic . |
| 22 | A different noise made itself heard , and there among the circling gulls , high up , a fighter plane among the domestic craft , tore a peregrine falcon . |
| 23 | Then the board righted itself and drifted out a few feet into the pool with the two rabbits hunched upon it , rigid and motionless . |
| 24 | And remember , Roger , the thread had been removed , the fuse destroys itself , and people coming in and out of the room , once the bed was on fire , would scarcely think it suspicious even if they saw the odd burn mark on the floor . |
| 25 | Coutts & Co prides itself on offering comprehensive national and international banking and financial services with ‘ an unwavering commitment to courteous and individual service ’ . |
| 26 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 27 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 28 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 29 | Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment . |
| 30 | The IBM Corp board found itself paying out rather more for the services of its new chairman and chief executive : it had to guarantee Louis Gerstner the value of stock and options he holds in RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp ; Gerstner is still an RJR Nabisco director and is not under any deadline to exercise his options , which run another 11 years ; the guarantee covers 300,000 shares of RJR stock and options for an additional 3.2m shares , with a guaranteed price of $8.125 a share . |