Example sentences of "[vb past] themselves at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 2 | The Smiths , defying the trend of white electro beat , found themselves at the forefront of a new wave of ‘ pick up your guitar ’ bands . |
| 3 | The arsenic is now on its way elsewhere , nor is the shake-up ending there , as dumps all over Europe have by turns found themselves at the end of the latest ‘ lead ’ . |
| 4 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 5 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 6 | O'Toole and Finch even attended his funeral but — probably having drunk a little more than they 'd meant to , to ease their grief — they found themselves at the wrong funeral and mourning over the wrong body being buried . |
| 7 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
| 8 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 9 | ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ . |
| 10 | The hounds threw themselves at the gate . |
| 11 | Entering the cafe , the Blackshirts went upstairs and showed themselves at the window , which provoked a hail of missiles from the crowd below . |
| 12 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 13 | A beautiful non-tidal cove where Dublin 's finest flaunted themselves at an indifferent sea while their wives , children and girlfriends sat half a mile away on what was an excuse for a beach amidst the polluted debris of the capital and not a wave to be seen . |
| 14 | Again , beautifully rounded characters which established themselves at a leisurely pace are the secret of its appeal . |
| 15 | The rebels then established themselves at a camp some 20 km from Moroni , calling for the resignation of Djohar and his Cabinet and of Capt. Azali Assoumani , commander of the FCD . |
| 16 | During World War II the Keppels established themselves at the Ritz Hotel in London . |
| 17 | After that they kept themselves at a safe distance . |
| 18 | Pragmatism can be viewed as appealing to many who located themselves at the convergence between liberalism and socialism , since it sought to temper and transcend the positivism and empiricism associated with Fabianism and the idealism identified with New Liberalism . |
| 19 | Fruits which were soft when ripe , such as the apricot , the fig or the mulberry , which might be bruised by falling , presented themselves at a small distance from the ground ; whereas hard fruit , which ran no risk of sustaining an injury by a fall , like the cocoa , the walnut or the chestnut , presented themselves at a considerable height . |
| 20 | Fruits which were soft when ripe , such as the apricot , the fig or the mulberry , which might be bruised by falling , presented themselves at a small distance from the ground ; whereas hard fruit , which ran no risk of sustaining an injury by a fall , like the cocoa , the walnut or the chestnut , presented themselves at a considerable height . |
| 21 | The 1000 or so members of the meek class who presented themselves at the conference , were , suitably enough , unruffled by having been shunted from the Sorbonne to the techno-chic sidings at Porte de la Villette . |
| 22 | Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work . |
| 23 | When Mrs Gray had produced two very passable cups of coffee , they seated themselves at the long deal kitchen table . |
| 24 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |