Example sentences of "puts [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 2 | So that when you go into the Drama Studio with a group of students … and when you do decent work with them , everybody puts himself on the line , everybody . |
| 3 | Mopsus , however , puts himself in the power of would-be benefactors , and his vulnerability is ruthlessly exploited . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight . |
| 5 | So the bureaucracy ‘ puts itself at the service of the political interests of the hegemonic class ’ ( Poulantzas 1973 , p. 337 ) when the class from which the members of the state apparatus are recruited and the hegemonic class are not one and the same . |
| 6 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |