Example sentences of "[pn reflx] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not going to put ourselves out for them . |
| 2 | We wheedled the book ourselves out of that gullible weakling Fleming over at Dull . |
| 3 | We talked and gradually came to a decision that was quite contrary to the one we had held when we hauled ourselves out of our clothes a half-hour before . |
| 4 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 5 | Doug Cantwell , chairman of West Wiltshire Conservatives , said yesterday : ‘ We have to do our best to pull ourselves out of this recession and tighten our belts . |
| 6 | But now it 's up to us to lift ourselves out of it . ’ |
| 7 | We carried on using the encyclopedia to make plans , taking ourselves out of that room to beautiful , exotic places , places of joyful freedom , sailing oceans , crossing mountain ranges and doing something worthwhile . |
| 8 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 9 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 10 | We had to do something to get ourselves out of the situation . |
| 11 | I bet we burn ourselves out before the Sun ! |
| 12 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 13 | He seemed genuinely grateful for his aunt 's hospitality , and set himself out to be exceptionally charming to Doctor Bailey . |
| 14 | Hyatt , a Canadian case which was decided by the Privy Council , it was held that where a director holds himself out to be the agent of the shareholders , then he owes the same fiduciary duties as would an ordinary agent to his principal . |
| 15 | Feeling one step from death , Branson dragged himself out to the car and drove quickly through the early morning traffic to the hospital in Wimbledon . |
| 16 | If he had been able to , how gladly he would have hired himself out to either of the wealthy men whose daughters had died . |
| 17 | He awoke towards evening , put on fresh clothes and took himself out to one of the modest eating houses that lined the bank of the river on either side of the harbour . |
| 18 | Until the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 , only a registered patent agent or a solicitor could act for gain as agents for persons seeking patents , but now anyone can do this as long as he does not describe himself as , or hold himself out to be , a " patent agent " or " patent attorney " . |
| 19 | He could make himself out to be the apostle of order in Europe , but he had to devote far more his attention to order at home . |
| 20 | Where an unauthorised act outside the normal scope of his authority is committed by a partner or someone holding himself out to be a partner , liability will not attach to the firm . |
| 21 | Own branders The liability applies under s2(2) ( b ) to : ( b ) any person who , by putting his name on the product or using a trade mark or other distinguishing mark in relation to the product , has held himself out to be the producer of the product . |
| 22 | My Lord the defence admit that no such advice was given to the plaintiff but they deny that they were under any duty er to give such advice and it is pleaded in the that er the defendants will rely upon the fact that Mr er held himself out to be er an experienced man of business and as such it was not necessary on their part to advise him upon the adequacy and arrangements for the financing of the operation . |
| 23 | My Lord that is in dispute , it is in dispute firstly that in fact as a matter of fact , Mr had ever held himself out to be an experienced man er of business , that Peter believed him to be as such , er and in any event , even if he was to seem as such it is the plaintiff 's case that there was still a duty upon the solicitor in that situation . |
| 24 | Her brother earned his living by hiring himself out to whoever needed his services on the island . |
| 25 | Wickets continued to fall on the Thursday , the usually reliable Mead managing only 24 , and Tennyson himself out for 45 . |
| 26 | Kept Ireland out of the war , but that does n't mean he 's putting himself out for your people . |
| 27 | But only Atherton and Lloyd looked capable of challenging the Essex total , and Lancashire 's cause was n't helped when Fairbrother ran himself out for 15 . |
| 28 | Neil Fairbrother ran himself out for 15 and Graham Lloyd fell to a brilliant tumbling catch by Stephenson . |
| 29 | He wears himself out with these people . |
| 30 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |