Example sentences of "itself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting where he was , a bullet fired into the back of his neck might pass through and embed itself somewhere in the brickwork above the stove . |
| 2 | Shiona felt her heart perform a triple somersault and lodge itself somewhere in the region of her throat . |
| 3 | She had no friends , for she repelled intimacy as though it were an insult , but she had a position : her manner imposed itself relentlessly upon the indifferent and the unconcerned . |
| 4 | The fringing reef came into view as well : a ragged line of breakers , huge walls of spume and the ocean hurling itself relentlessly against the coral . |
| 5 | The state-controlled television threw itself vigorously into the fray . |
| 6 | Her plaintive whisper had projected itself right round the Hall , but this had not put paid to her determination to secure his attention . |
| 7 | I regard the existence of flourishing humanities research as an index to the civilisation of our society ; Labour , however , has committed itself prematurely to the establishment of a humanities research council . |
| 8 | Brute farce , however effective in terrorizing people , is not by itself enough in the longer run . |
| 9 | A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry . |
| 10 | Over 100 Labour Members of Parliament began to urge the government to dissociate itself entirely from the war . |
| 11 | Between the subtle observations of the period of about 270–240 B.C. and the adulation of poems like that by Melinno — which , though undated , places itself naturally in the early second century — we have to recognize a gap . |
| 12 | In another decade the new Bokhara will have attracted to itself much of the importance of the ancient city , and with its rise and growth the prestige of the latter must inevitably decline . |
| 13 | The United States was increasingly distracted by Vietnam , while in 1966 France began to disengage itself militarily from the alliance . |
| 14 | The Butlins Empire has now had to market itself anew for the experienced package tourist ; a move from wooden chalets to brick-built country suites , from the Minehead Camp to Summerwest World . |
| 15 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
| 16 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 17 | Half a breath dimly lit itself exactly in the middle of his head . |
| 18 | Unsurprisingly , it confined itself largely to the home — to the space between the sink and the bed . |
| 19 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 20 | In the increasingly popular idiom of so-called ‘ performance arts ’ actors and audiences revel in non-verbal excesses in the belief that such behaviour addresses itself directly to the human soul and that all other forms of traditional theatre are disgustingly ‘ literary ’ . |
| 21 | Can this group remain within a united working class or will it pursue selfish interests , separating itself further from the remainder of the working class ? |
| 22 | As the oxygen is bound the iron shrinks in size and buries itself further in the porphyrin . |
| 23 | He said the NHS should address itself more to the needs of cancer patients so that they do not feel they have to go outside the system . |
| 24 | Again , as in The Graduate , it was a hit song on the soundtrack , in this case , Fred Neil 's ‘ Everybody 's Talkin ’ , that gave the film a contemporary resonance , lodging itself more in the ear than in the eye or mind . |
| 25 | Its articulation is easier and hence its flexibility is greater than that of the trumpet , but its proper place is the brass or wind band and it has not succeeded in establishing itself permanently in the orchestra . |
| 26 | No country has yet settled on how to rid itself forever of the thousands of tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste that is piling up at power plants . |
| 27 | Pravda , the official Soviet newspaper , has positioned itself unambiguously on the side of the East German government 's authority . |
| 28 | He belonged to the old-fashioned generation which believed in covering itself carefully from the sun . |
| 29 | And indeed , the lexicon of " Diffugere nives " lends itself repeatedly to the construction of immanent linkages in the lexicon , a strain of metaphor not overt ( like the obvious figure of comae , " tresses " , in the second line ) but operating covertly through the potential spread of reference , the semantic leeway , in certain items of vocabulary . |
| 30 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |