Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In some industries there will always be a delay between a company paying its suppliers and getting paid itself , ’ he says . |
| 2 | He had n't realised pregnancy was such a dislocating experience , or even that getting married itself would cause such an upheaval . |
| 3 | So , once again , having committed itself to support the fictional or , at most , ‘ evolutionary ’ independence of Vietnam , the US was just as dependent as ever on France to make this vision a reality . |
| 4 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
| 5 | They , too , reasoned that Death , having gorged itself on their neighbours , would have long since moved on . |
| 6 | First , administrative tribunals or authorities were subject to the full rigours of the Anisminic judgment : the parliamentary intent was presumed , subject to a clear contrary indication , to be that questions of law were to be decided by the courts ; the distinction between errors within jurisdiction and errors going to jurisdiction was , for practical purposes , abolished , and any error of law would automatically result in the tribunal having asked itself the wrong question . |
| 7 | The Government would be powerless , having denied itself the right of access to the ordinary courts in such an eventuality . |
| 8 | Having assured itself of that source , however , does n't translate into a positive factor — merely a neutral one . |
| 9 | Having established itself in damp timber , this infection can spread to dry wood and brickwork . |
| 10 | Industry , strictly defined , can be regarded as having established itself only where production so exceeded local demand as to be aimed at a wider market , for a trade might flourish and yet remain no more than a subsidiary activity , like the leather trades of the Weald of Sussex . |