pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a snake coils itself around sth
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The snake coiled itself around the branch.
a storm blows itself out (= ends )
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The storm finally blew itself out.
an end in itself (= the thing that you want to achieve )
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The programme is not an end in itself, but rather the first step the prisoner takes towards a new life.
communicated itself
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His enthusiasm communicated itself to the voters.
plays itself out
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It will be interesting to see how the election plays itself out .
simplicity itself (= very simple )
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James’ solution to this problem was simplicity itself .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assert itself
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Islam began to assert itself in the seventh century.
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Lying in clouds of scent in the sunken tub filled to the brim, that streak of equanimity she had asserted itself.
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Now, with the future assured, the comfortable past asserted itself unchanged.
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Our novelist's intellectual humour is asserting itself beneath the narrative.
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So by this means, the interest of ownership in the performance of the business owned can assert itself.
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The current wild weather through the West and Midwest again has raised the question: Is global warming finally asserting itself?
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The former character asserts itself, and some-times disagreeably, weaKly, disgracefully.
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The party will continue to assert itself and severely punish political dissent.
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This was the way in which uncertainty asserted itself in Heisenberg's original formulation of quantum mechanics.
blow itself out
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Governments were paralysed, hoping the storm would blow itself out without affecting their friends and families and favourite projects.
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Next morning dawns bright and clear; the storm has blown itself out in the night.
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She could do nothing but batten down the conversational hatches and wait until the storm blew itself out.
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The morning of the third day, they woke up and saw the storm had blown itself out.
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The storm had blown itself out, leaving the sky pearly.
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The storm had blown itself out, there was only steady drizzle.
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They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out, which it did in spectacular fashion.
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This storm was not going to blow itself out in an hour - not even for him.
commend itself (to sb)
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This view did not commend itself to the pope.
history repeats itself
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As the scholar says, history repeats itself.
lend itself to sth
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It's time-proven, reliable and lends itself to tuning.
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One of the beauties of the discipline of neurology is how it lends itself to analysis of dysfunction involving these neural levels.
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Or does the environment lend itself to the air power and precision-guided missiles of a Steve Forbes?
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The latter type of fuel lends itself to underwater storage for several decades.
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The study did not seem to lend itself to a description of community service profiles.
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This is not, by its nature, the sort of theory that lends itself to easy confirmation.
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This process seems to have been handled badly, even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment.
manifest itself
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A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point.
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Interest is now focused on how this might manifest itself in the government's promised rethink on constitutional reform.
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On the microscopic level, this problem manifests itself in abstractionism.
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That manifested itself in a lack of motivation and commitment in the work force.
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The uncertainty manifests itself above all in the volatile perceptions of the two candidates.
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This lack of real leadership manifested itself on many occasions.
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Yet this delayed-action disease manifested itself in widening circles and in larger numbers of people.
offer itself
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If the prey obligingly offers itself as an immobilised piece of meat, what advantage does it gain?
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St William's Foundation here offers itself as latter-day deusexmachina.
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The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise.
pay for itself
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Installing solar film on the windows will pay for itself.
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At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months.
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But I think I can say that each machine has paid for itself, one way or another.
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Fab 25 needs more strong high-volume chips to pay for itself.
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Growth needs to pay for itself.
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How long for his addition to pay for itself?
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Investment in an agency, branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business.
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Life has a way of giving a comic a funny face which ultimately starts to pay for itself.
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Walkup's argument: Well-planned development can pay for itself, without the burden of impact fees and similar financing mechanisms.
reassert itself
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But it also allows the traditional power biology has within psychology to reassert itself within them.
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I wondered, naturally, how and when reality would reassert itself.
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It was clearly time for true Protestantism to reassert itself and win allegiances.
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It was only to be expected that sooner or later the Collector's sense of duty would reassert itself.
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There may be some recovery when they go to school, but the dip will reassert itself during the teenage years.
resolve (itself) into sth
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Given sufficient magnification, of course, all open clusters can be resolved into stars.
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In fact, particles and anti-particles resolve into massless energy, but that is far from being nothing.
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In practice the question therefore resolves itself into: Has there been enough time for enough successive generations?
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It seems to have finally resolved itself into an increased interest in practical deterrence and street-level prevention programmes.
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They can be resolved into various oscillations about the equilibrium structure.
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With binoculars, few of the globulars can be resolved into stars except at their extreme edges.
seed itself
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Clean architectural lines, gleaming glass, flower beds so neat and regimented that no weed would dare to seed itself.
sort itself out
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Childhood problems and anxieties have a habit of sorting themselves out.
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This situation is not going to sort itself out. We have to do something.
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At present, Ann led and Megan followed, but that would sort itself out in the long run.
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Expect more bobbing and weaving while this one sorts itself out.
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Inside the gulf of Pagasai, the disorganized Persian armament was sorting itself out and re-numbering.
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Instead, they would rely on decentralized, uncontrolled life to sort itself out and come to some self-enhancing harmony.
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Life has a funny way of sorting itself out.
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The seating problem more or less sorted itself out.
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The situation will sort itself out when the city reopens Navy Pier, the fair's preferred location.
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They hope that it will sort itself out with time - it is even more difficult to ask a second time.
speak for itself/themselves
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He's a good coach - his success speaks for itself.
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Again, we begin by letting the managers speak for themselves.
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But the history of the family speaks for itself.
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I think the above account speaks for itself.
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Kahn believed that his work spoke for itself.
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The account mainly speaks for itself.
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The arrangement seemed to speak for itself: Alice, the true love.
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They simply put it out and let the music speak for itself.
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Yet the belief that a videotape somehow speaks for itself persisted.
sth expresses itself
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Sometimes public outrage expresses itself in extreme ways.
sth presents itself
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After independence, the opportunity to stop slavery presented itself, but was not acted upon.
sth suggests itself
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The bird was looking at itself in the mirror.
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The meeting itself was quite interesting.
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The tape player shuts itself off when it's done.