Example sentences of "put [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can put ourselves in the place of the poet or the friend ; we can be either the sender or the receiver . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was a variation on the routine he would put himself through every time after a man he had just slept with had left the flat ; he would check his body for scratches , bruises and teethmarks . |
| 8 | Or again , someone may honestly put himself under the lordship of Christ yet at the same time adhere to a Christian lifestyle or espouse Christian values which by temperament or nationality he would be likely to appreciate anyway . |
| 9 | One of a director 's fiduciary duties of particular relevance in management buy-outs is that he must not put himself in a position where his duty to the company may conflict with his personal interest . |
| 10 | Will the Minister put himself in the place of that 15-year-old girl , too frightened to ask anyone for help , alone , desperate and penniless ? |
| 11 | At the end of the nineteen twenties the policy from Moscow , not just to the Chinese Communist Party but actually to communist parties all over the world swings dramatically to the left and Stalin is arguing that there 's , there are going to be revolutionary explosions all over the world the Communist Party must forge its own path , it must put itself at the head of these struggles , it must give a lead to the masses by launching insurrections and so on and so forth . |
| 12 | Never must she put herself in a position where she might be tempted to betray the fact that she loved him . |
| 13 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 14 | In a small employment agency there may only be one interviewer and you will put yourself at a disadvantage if you make a bad start . |
| 15 | If you lose these you will put yourself at an even greater disadvantage . |
| 16 | Although you might have driven a long way to get there , do n't put yourself into a situation you ca n't handle . |
| 17 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 18 | Why put yourself in a position of possible risk when you do n't need to ? |
| 19 | If you can put yourself in the other person 's shoes and think about how they might feel , it will certainly help if you let them know that . |
| 20 | Assuming that you have determined that the line is biased to starboard , and you therefore want to start near the starboard end of the line , there are still a number of considerations which you must take into account before you can put yourself in the right place as the gun is fired . |
| 21 | Can you also put yourself in the editor 's shoes and draft a short introductory paragraph . |
| 22 | I mean if if a woman undresses okay let's take a scenario okay Simon maybe er you know you could put yourself in the same situation |
| 23 | Many Yugoslav army officers had asked how they could put themselves at the disposal of the government , he said . |
| 24 | Officers would perform excellent service if they could put themselves in a position to receive information which could be translated into proceedings before a jury . |
| 25 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 26 | Why should I put myself to a lot of trouble and difficulty when — perhaps — you could just give the terrorists what they ask and save all the bother ? ’ |
| 27 | That is the last time I shall put myself at a loss or disadvantage for her , she decided , unable as she was to thank me . |
| 28 | Belle and I floored another hen betwixt the pair of us , and I shall be no sooner done with the present writing racket than I shall put myself outside a pint of Guinness . |
| 29 | I 'd unnecessarily put myself in a stressful situation . |