Example sentences of "[vb past] itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As from last week , ICL plc 's Training Services division transformed itself into Peritas Ltd , a wholly-owned , but independent subsidiary . |
| 2 | His frown deepened , then transformed itself into a radiant grin . |
| 3 | At a symbolic rally , held on May 23 in the capital San Salvador , the FMLN transformed itself into a political party . |
| 4 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 5 | Then from out there where Slorne 's gaze had led him , from out of the dark moonlit sky , there came a distant calling of a name , a place , a power , and it was like a great presence he could only feel and not see , and it cast itself over him , and over his cage , and over the whole Zoo , and over more than that . |
| 6 | It changed itself into a stream of electronic signals and dived head-first into the TARDIS . ’ |
| 7 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 8 | Without them it is questionable whether the Uprising would have happened and if it had , whether it could either have embraced the total population or sustained itself for so long . |
| 9 | The Bulgarian Social Democrat Party ( BSDP ) had originally called itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party , but redesignated itself as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party ( non-Marxist ) , at its first national conference held on March 31 in Sofia , thereby ceding the BSP name to be adopted by the BCP [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 10 | The Task Force on ‘ the environmental dimension ’ of the internal market described itself as ‘ much concerned ’ with the transport sector , which it thought would have a greater impact on the environment than any other sector . |
| 11 | The twin moves by a company that previously described itself as an out-and-out , dyed-in-the-wool Unix bigot with great hopes for the MIPS RISC chip must leave the rest of the Unix community at least edgy despite the fact that Corollary says the bulk of its energies are still directed toward Unix . |
| 12 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 13 | The Labour Conference , which described itself as a body uniting all forms of workers ' struggle for their rights , called for a national warning strike which would create local bodies which could participate in the struggle against the current government and its reforms . |
| 14 | He whimpered as a tentacle fastened itself around his waist . |
| 15 | The old familiar image of that desperately clutching hand , rising up out of the waves and then sinking again for ever , created itself in her mind 's eye . |
| 16 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 17 | From the point of view of certain owners , these diet-shifts are nothing but a nuisance , but if ever , for some dramatic reason , the cat found itself without its usual owner , they would stand it in good stead . |
| 18 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 19 | There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons . |
| 20 | In no time at all , The Haçienda found itself with a reputation of being the coldest , most unresponsive , most apathetic gigging hall in the country . |
| 21 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 22 | The first attempt to penetrate the Latin American market was made in the early 1930s , when Moscow found itself with a surplus of oil in a world marketing network tightly controlled by the major multi-nationals . |
| 23 | Again , in the late 1950s , the Soviet Union found itself with a surplus of oil , and this time succeeded in negotiating agreements with Uruguay and Argentina in 1958 , and with Brazil in 1959 . |
| 24 | Subscription lists were taken , the premises were turned over , and the paper found itself with its first crisis . |
| 25 | In Spain in the 1960s , INI found itself with representatives of the ministries of finance , commerce , industry , public works , agriculture , as well as the ministries of the army , navy and airforce , on its board of directors ( Fernandez 1970 : 951–2 ) . |
| 26 | Denmark is their other northern commitment , and it is there that 2 RRP found itself on 30 June 1989 . |
| 27 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 28 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 29 | We must now turn our attention to the wider situation in which 5 Corps found itself on 10–12 May . |
| 30 | It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor . |