Example sentences of "[vb infin] itself [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament yesterday confounded widespread predictions that it would wind itself up ahead of the Warsaw Pact 's first free elections scheduled for the spring . |
| 2 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 3 | Er , some some translations will put it tha that , that a , that a great storm blew up , but he word that is originally used there is the wi i , conveys the idea that this is no ordinary storm , this is just a , a sudden squall that has blown and in a , in a short while will blow itself out again , but it 's a strong word that 's used here , a word that would , that would denote a whirlwind or a tempest , something above and beyond the ordinary course of events that these disciples , many of them experience fisherman , would have known and been able to cope without any problem . |
| 4 | Starting at three fifteen , it would drag itself out indefinitely . |
| 5 | But of course the foam system had better switch itself off automatically at low speeds . |
| 6 | How did the first builders think a new tank would get itself up there , when the original tank , presumably put in before the roof went on , reached its natural end ? |
| 7 | What other company could pull itself round as radically as this in such a short time ? |