Example sentences of "themselves [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 2 | You 're right ; they ought to pull themselves together at one place . |
| 3 | Some of the old hands have got themselves in at the cop stations and traffic control rooms . |
| 4 | INTRODUCED GAME BIRDS : Among numerous species of game birds from Asia and North America which have been introduced into the region from time to time , these have established themselves in at least one area , the pheasants in woodlands . |
| 5 | The Romanians have been leaving Pontins Bream Sands centre in Somerset to turn themselves in at police stations across the west country . |
| 6 | There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable . |
| 7 | the guerrillas targeted military officers , who felt themselves personally at risk ; |
| 8 | You can not have women popping new people out of themselves just at random , when and where they want . |
| 9 | Four-fifths of Oxfordshire teachers feel competent to conduct their review , and only a minimal 3 per cent declare themselves not at all competent . |
| 10 | Within twenty minutes of arrival , we had both caught the prescribed limit ; strange , stump-tailed rainbow trout that threw themselves instantly at whatever fly we offered . |
| 11 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 12 | His limbs pulled themselves up at ridiculous angles . |
| 13 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 14 | First , the synchronized nature of the 1970–1 recession meant that governments found themselves simultaneously at a similar , recessionary phase of the cycle . |
| 15 | The report says that the company 's failure is " due quite simply to the overvaluation of the project , which has allowed some vultures to enrich themselves immeasurably at Congo 's expense . " |
| 16 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 17 | The rise in local politics over recent years is not just the passive outcome of national forces working themselves out at the local level . |
| 18 | Thus are we victims of various sorts of obsession when certain parts of ourselves seek to preserve themselves even at the expense of the whole personality . |
| 19 | Baltic representatives , for instance , associated themselves closely at the 19th Party Conference with the call for ‘ regional khozraschet' or in practice for republican self-sufficiency . |