Example sentences of "[verb] itself at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For similar reasons BA , a Heathrow-based airline , was also keen to establish itself at Gatwick , thereby making itself the dominant airline at Britain 's two largest airports . |
| 2 | With the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia , Germany found itself at war with its trade competitors in the west , and at war with its nationalist rivals and its potential empire in the east . |
| 3 | Frederick 's aggression disturbed George II 's position as Elector of Hanover and , because he tried to defend Maria Theresa 's treaty rights and France joined in the attack upon her , Britain found itself at war with France . |
| 4 | Since the Lord Chancellor 's Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 77 the House of Lords has considered itself at liberty to depart from its own previous decisions when it appears right to do so . |
| 5 | Dell places itself at number three . |
| 6 | We lean over the balcony , marvelling over the way this industrial city , drab and dour by day , transforms itself at night . |
| 7 | One may indeed go so far as to assert that the Japanese occupation of Indochina was the key issue in the conflict between Japan and the US which led to the attack at Pearl Harbor ; and after what was , initially , a rather lofty approach to the problems of Indochina and Southeast Asian security , America 's final demand that Japan remove its forces from both China and Indochina ( 26 November 1941 ) was met with the equally final Japanese rejection which manifested itself at Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Southeast Asia . |
| 8 | The program can learn about new classes and the relationships that exist between classes and can modify itself at run-time . |
| 9 | IBM SURPRISES ITSELF AT PROGRESS OF POWERPC … |
| 10 | During this period a regular wintering flock established itself at Chichester gravel pits , which reached a peak of 43 birds in December 1969 and accounted for about half the records for each winter . |
| 11 | It does not infuse itself at conception — or any other magic moment . |
| 12 | The Senator also proposed an interim bureaucratic manoeuvre to head off the seminar : ‘ I genuinely fear that if the seminar is held the VEC will put itself at risk because you are giving a platform to people who are not sincere . |
| 13 | The simplest polygon is the equilateral triangle which echoes itself at 60° intervals . |
| 14 | Gen Noreiga said last Friday that Panama considered itself at war with the US so long as American aggression against Panamanians continued . |