Example sentences of "themselves at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When bream patrol their feeding routes they frequently display themselves at the surface . |
| 2 | Hayling got huge enjoyment from introducing the two sides , and he and others were beside themselves at the incongruity of the meeting . |
| 3 | The hounds threw themselves at the gate . |
| 4 | Entering the cafe , the Blackshirts went upstairs and showed themselves at the window , which provoked a hail of missiles from the crowd below . |
| 5 | ‘ As they strap in for holiday flights , how many people imagine themselves at the controls ? ’ said a Virgin spokesman . |
| 6 | ‘ Women of middle class origins who found themselves at the beginning of their working lives unequipped to promote themselves within occupations which traditionally demanded either precise qualifications or highly developed aptitude ’ . |
| 7 | The cavalry had already ridden through the pall of dust and smoke that hung over the demolished Cutcherry and now they were ready to hurl themselves at the garrison , hastily assembled behind the churchyard wall . |
| 8 | About a dozen were still milling around , hurling themselves at the fur shop window , almost certainly bullet proof , the rest were arguing or wrestling with about ten policemen who were too busy to tell us to move on even when the lights changed . |
| 9 | WINNERS : Peers of the realm , who can continue to make use of the facilities in the Other Place without having to humiliate themselves at the hustings . |
| 10 | Relatively ignorant , inexperienced and amateur politicians may find themselves at the mercy of the bureaucracies , which possess knowledge , experience and technical expertise . |
| 11 | Wounded men and prisoners could still have much to fear if they found themselves at the mercy of their opponents . |
| 12 | I 'm beginning to realize why perfectly sane people pitch themselves at the mercy of the elements miles from the security of terra firma , has provided the perfect resort for our first events of the . |
| 13 | Robson is , however , unlikely to start the game as both sides aim to put some daylight between themselves at the top of the table . |
| 14 | Horses eliminated from the race at the bottom of the handicap will tomorrow find themselves at the top of the weights for the ‘ consolation ’ race the William Hill Spring Mile . |
| 15 | eat themselves at the top of the food-chain |
| 16 | In the stands , spontaneous combustion provokes smouldering enthusiasm amongst the spectators , while on the playing area fielders fling themselves at the ball and into the advertising hoardings around the boundary in frenzied attempts to save runs . |
| 17 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 18 | Generally , no fee is charged for pupillage , but local authorities do not give grants for maintenance , which has the unfortunate result that students without adequate parental means may find it impossible to establish themselves at the Bar . |
| 19 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 20 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 21 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 22 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 23 | They will also find themselves at the centre of the debate over which sources are published and which are not . |
| 24 | The volunteers may find themselves at the centre of an even more important discovery . |
| 25 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 26 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , Nottingham Forest find themselves at the foot of a Premier League where standards are low , largely due to a paucity of decent managers and where none have Clough 's breadth of knowledge and experience . |
| 29 | Three old cruisers , Thetis , Intrepid and Iphigenia largely stripped and filled with concrete , attempted to sink themselves at the mouth of the canal . |
| 30 | During World War II the Keppels established themselves at the Ritz Hotel in London . |