Example sentences of "put [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 2 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 3 | ‘ a member of a college puts himself voluntarily under a peculiar system of law , and assents to being bound by it , and can not thereafter complain that such system is not in accordance with that adopted by the common law . |
| 4 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 5 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 6 | Finally , Stamford put itself forward in the 1960s as one of the sites for the new generation of universities , citing the town 's ‘ university history ’ in support of its case . |
| 7 | This state she spontaneously pictured as if she had become small , about the size of a jar of marmalade ( this image appeared with a kind of authority ) and had put herself away in a small square recess in a wall , just large enough to hold her . |
| 8 | Even if you are not going to apply for a Legal Aid franchise , membership of the panel will be important for anyone putting themselves forward as a personal injury specialist ( see Appendix 2A for the Personal Injury Panel criteria ) . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ ’ |