Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] themselves at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 2 | On the Left Bank the Germans began to find themselves at an increasing tactical disadvantage . |
| 3 | They preferred to keep themselves at a ‘ safe ’ distance from computers . |
| 4 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 5 | Fifty people ( the other thirty had disengaged themselves at the first mention of Dickens ) were now taking tea in the gardens of the Albion Hotel under the shelter of parasols . |
| 6 | Three old cruisers , Thetis , Intrepid and Iphigenia largely stripped and filled with concrete , attempted to sink themselves at the mouth of the canal . |