Example sentences of "[verb] put himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has put himself beyond the pale — I have forbidden you to speak of him . ’ |
| 2 | But that Terry of yours has put himself beyond it . |
| 3 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 4 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 5 | He is n't going to put himself through all that again . ’ |
| 6 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |
| 7 | a person in a fiduciary position … is not … entitled to make a profit ; he is not allowed to put himself in a position where his interest and duty conflict . |
| 8 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 9 | He seems , on his own initiative , to have put himself through an extensive course of classics , modern languages and English literature , a combination of subjects that it was not then possible to offer at any university . |
| 10 | How convenient of John Major to have put himself in the position of bringing the Maastricht issue to a head — and at the same time virtually assuring a no-confidence vote in the Government — on the day the sun and Saturn are in a tense 90-degree angle to each other . |
| 11 | He spoke as man to men , dominating them with his prestige , without trying to put himself on a lower level , as do those who form a false picture of the people . |
| 12 | or the one who seeks to put himself in the place of Christ . |
| 13 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
| 14 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 15 | Dr Philip Myerscough , of Edinburgh University , said putting himself in the shoes of the consultant looking after Debra Busuttil he would have induced labour . |
| 16 | You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it . |