Example sentences of "put [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has put himself beyond the pale — I have forbidden you to speak of him . ’ |
| 2 | Rather more interesting , however , to Julia than either Ian 's or Canon Wheeler 's vision for the Church was the very puzzling question of why , when he invariably summoned his subordinates to come to him by phone , Wheeler had today put himself to the trouble of walking up a back staircase to the servants ' quarters ? |
| 3 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yes I I was erm the additional information that was available to me at this time , er Sergeant the er having left me the previous night er had actually , had gone to the premises erm , gone to the flats erm and had er put himself in the area of the flat and was able to tell me that he had heard voices , two male voices coming from within the flat . |
| 8 | If the GDR , with a 1982 debt service ratio of 63 per cent faces an uphill struggle , Poland , with a debt service ratio of 191 per cent has put herself beyond the point of return as an OECD trading partner for at least a decade . |
| 9 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 10 | Naturally the ILP remained hostile to the League , commenting that : The only groups which will participate in this effort are the insignificant number which have already put themselves outside the ILP . |
| 11 | They had also put themselves into the role of mediators , if anyone wanted to use them . |
| 12 | As to conflict of interest , the judge held that the defendants had put themselves in a position where their self-interest in obtaining commission on both sales might ( not did ) conflict with their duty to the plaintiff . |
| 13 | I mean I feel sorry for them erm they 've put themselves in a position branded forever more or less . |
| 14 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 15 | Having put themselves in an extraordinary environment , which nevertheless feels so homely and ordinary , the members occasionally come into contact with wider , more powerful and less homely influences . |
| 16 | Today I 've rather put myself under a strain . |
| 17 | If they think I 'm pretty , that 's nice , I 'm complimented ; but if they do n't think I am , I have n't put myself on the line . |
| 18 | Pascal warned that ‘ hearsay is so far from being a criterion of belief that you should not believe anything until you have put yourself into the same state as if you had never heard it . ’ |