Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] itself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 2 | There was a restlessness in the time that communicated itself everywhere and to everyone , that communicated itself to the very sounds in Britain 's air , the stones beneath Britain 's feet . |
| 3 | We merely became accustomed to the general life of the common birds and animals , and to the appearances of trees and clouds and everything upon the surface that showed itself to the naked eye ’ . |
| 4 | I thought , a laugh being pretty well the only dealing with the truth that offered itself at the moment , and so nothing to run down . |
| 5 | Leslie had clearly avoided this mishap , for the face that presented itself at the church to the sound of other bells was unblemished — only so very much older than that of the newly-commissioned boy of the Stirling studio photograph , taken but three years before . |
| 6 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 7 | When the knights reformed in front of them they suddenly launched a wild shout , and welded into one moving weapon , that aimed itself at the enemy beyond the river , and this time did not halt . |
| 8 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 9 | And that curtain went from the window right across the room and pinned itself into the piano , pinned the curtains into the piano . |
| 10 | In their remarkable study , Stallybrass and White argue that ‘ the bourgeois subject continuously defined and re-defined itself through the exclusion of what it marked out as ‘ low' ’ — as dirty , repulsive , noisy , contaminating . |
| 11 | There are even suggestions that the US appoint its own Chancellor and rid itself of the high-handed monetary czars who ride unchecked across the economic landscape . |
| 12 | By converting land into pasture for several years , the land has a chance to recover and rid itself of the heavy level of chemicals in its soil . |
| 13 | It ricocheted off a bulkhead , impossibly loud in the confined space , and buried itself in the fleshy part of Terhune 's thigh . |
| 14 | His face came down to her , passed by her own , and buried itself in the copper cloak . |
| 15 | Her bullet tore through Ma Katz and spent itself against the wall . |
| 16 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 17 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 18 | Alexei loosed , and the arrow leapt from the bow and embedded itself in the wooden spike which rose from the dome of a house two streets away . |
| 19 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 20 | One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pages and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain . |
| 21 | It was large and green , and wound itself along the branch with reptilian patience . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |