Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The elder of the two policemen smiled at Sarah but she dropped her eyes and tried to busy herself at the sink .
2 He went across and began washing himself at the lavarium .
3 He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her .
4 No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 A serving-maid to all intents and purposes , she had presented herself at the door which gave access to the rear stairs , the garden stairs , which led to the royal apartments .
8 He watched Ewen steadily , while the constable , who had seated himself at the kitchen table , was taking notes .
9 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 .
10 The Cheyney brothers were notable in Anglo-Italian society of the 1820s and 1830s , and were especially connected with Rome , where their mother had established herself at the Palazzo Sciarra .
11 Three old cruisers , Thetis , Intrepid and Iphigenia largely stripped and filled with concrete , attempted to sink themselves at the mouth of the canal .
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