Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] itself [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devolution was seen by heads as a process that lent itself to a more collaborative style of management . |
| 2 | Bees hummed steadily through the yellow bird 's foot trefoil that wove itself in a tangled carpet over the sand . |
| 3 | Sweeping into the market with some force has been Abbey National , the building society that turned itself into a bank in 1989 . |
| 4 | The idea of town planning was something that presented itself as an answer to a problem or group of problems which had arisen in contemporary urban life ’ ( Ashworth , 1954 ) . |
| 5 | When the mobs rush forward in the Mall they are taking part in the last circus of a civilization that has lost faith in itself , and sold itself for a splendid triviality . |
| 6 | ‘ It tripped on the rein and lamed itself on a tree-root , ’ said Crane . |
| 7 | It formed the Bund and committed itself to a critical modus vivendi with the state by declaring itself to be a ‘ church within socialism ’ . |
| 8 | It spun around , hurling its axe , which whirred over the assassin 's head and buried itself in a luckless thief behind him . |
| 9 | The doors sighed and closed with tender regret , and the whole train growled and shook itself like a dog coming out of the sea . |
| 10 | The stain lightened slowly to reveal lowering clouds moving in from the north ; the sea became less ink-like too , and showed itself as a mess of enormous and ever-moving swells picked out here and there by off-white skeins of spray . |
| 11 | On March 13 the Greek government denied that there had been any interference in Albania 's internal affairs , and dissociated itself from a recent declaration by the Metropolitan of Konitsa in which the archbishop had urged Greek Albanians to return to Albania in order to vote in the elections . |
| 12 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 13 | Their car skidded in gravel , flipped up and over like a pancake and lodged itself in a sundered tank . |
| 14 | The " Balham Group " was expelled and formed itself into a Communist League . |
| 15 | By this time , the middle of 1986 , the Alliance Against Hinkley C had decided to avoid any confusion with the then burgeoning political coalition of centre parties , and renamed itself with an unambiguous slogan — ‘ Stop Hinkley Expansion' ( SHE ) . |
| 16 | He watched as a homemaker , winging high , dropped its bundle of thin twigs and pushed itself into a steep dive to join the scramble . |
| 17 | As he watched , an r-shaped gantry-lift moved on its rails across to the craft and attached itself to a portal on its uppermost surface . |