Example sentences of "put ourselves [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We , we ca n't stand there in front of members and put ourselves in the firing line if we do n't know the answers to their questions .
2 As regular , well-known members of the church it is difficult to put ourselves into the shoes of the first-time visitor .
3 During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image .
4 We 're going to always have to fight against it and we 're always going to have to put ourselves on the agenda and put our issues on the agenda .
5 IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’
6 The IMF 's programme in Trinidad and Tobago is a case in point and in his resignation letter Budhoo asserts : ‘ We manipulated , blatantly and systematically , certain key statistical indices so as to put ourselves in a position where we could make very false pronouncements about ( the ) economic and financial performance of that country . ’
7 We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’
8 Yeah the firework systems supposed to be the centre of the Red Vase designs , we 're putting ourselves in a considerable disadvantage in not visiting and influencing these Red Vase Designs .
9 We can put ourselves in the place of the poet or the friend ; we can be either the sender or the receiver .
10 Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success .
11 But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about .
12 What I want to do is try and find out , we 'll try and put ourselves in the criminal 's er position and then s see how we go about breaking into a house .
13 To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent .
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