Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [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 drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |
| 3 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Three old cruisers , Thetis , Intrepid and Iphigenia largely stripped and filled with concrete , attempted to sink themselves at the mouth of the canal . |