Example sentences of "put themselves [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know if a lot of men put themselves up against that . ’ |
| 3 | Others , seeing what so many people put themselves through in the quest for slimness , just decide not to bother . |
| 4 | But erm careers officers particularly put themselves down for visits , |
| 5 | People protect their own territories and are reluctant to put themselves out for other departments striving hard to provide a good service . |
| 6 | But I mean I say , that 's not the fault of the people who work there , there not going to put themselves out of work . |
| 7 | They will need a good showing to put themselves back in contention for a place in Britain 's Olympic squad . |
| 8 | If executives really understand business and the motivational challenge of making profit , the last thing they will want to do is put themselves out to grass , write papers for learned journals and theorize on aspects of business they 've previously failed to put into practice . |
| 9 | A lot of people round here have put themselves out for me . |
| 10 | Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty . |
| 11 | This , to his great astonishment , caused a considerable disturbance ; and when he inquired what the people meant by putting themselves out over a black man , an Englishman who was passing answered : ‘ Well , perhaps you do n't know it , but you have just thrown one of Her Majesty 's judges out of the train . ’ ’ |
| 12 | wo n't put themselves out for the firm and it 's , it 's you know |
| 13 | Oxfam 's greatest wish on their fiftieth anniversary is that they can put themselves out of a job.But in the meantime they believe the problems of the third world can only be solved when the developed world understands . |
| 14 | I find that people tend to not put themselves down for training courses . |
| 15 | She came to Salzburg to the festival but refused to let anyone put themselves out for her ; I was enormously impressed by how kind and unassuming she was . |
| 16 | It did n't take long for him to bounce back , however , and during the latter part of the 1970s and early 1980s he and Trevino put themselves in for further chances of Open glory . |