Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] himself at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 2 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 3 | It was awful , he spoke so awkwardly , he always has to say things in a roundabout way , he always has to justify himself at the same time . |
| 4 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |
| 5 | He went across and began washing himself at the lavarium . |
| 6 | In 1415 , Hus was summoned to defend himself at the Council of Constance , having been assured of a safe conduct by the emperor Sigismund . |
| 7 | He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |
| 8 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |
| 9 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 10 | He watched Ewen steadily , while the constable , who had seated himself at the kitchen table , was taking notes . |
| 11 | His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next . |
| 12 | It was late on Friday evening — Friday , May 9 , 1941 — and he was ordered to present himself at the office at ten past seven in the morning . |