Example sentences of "put [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look 'ere , Mister Know-all , ’ he said in a confident voice , ‘ I 've bin doin' a lot o' finkin' an' I 've put meself about . |
| 2 | Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down . |
| 3 | doubting that we would ever have put ourselves out so much for you … . |
| 4 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 5 | Despite the fact that he had apparently not put himself out overmuch to get home , he was given a hero 's welcome in Polperro . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Second , Iago 's terrible silence once his deceptions have been exposed : ‘ Demand me nothing , what you know , you know , /From this time forth I never will speak word ’ ( V.ii.304f. ) : this refusal of language is the logical outcome of the destructive egoism with which Iago has put himself outside , and in his own eyes above , society . |
| 10 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 11 | He has put himself beyond the pale — I have forbidden you to speak of him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But Witcher , ’ she continued , ‘ that 's the bloke who 's put himself in charge . |
| 13 | He had already put himself out by agreeing to see Dougal at such short notice . |
| 14 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
| 15 | But that Terry of yours has put himself beyond it . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it . |
| 18 | Among those elected was a former dissident , Daniel Chipenda , who had earlier put himself forward as a candidate for a new post of vice-chairman of the party . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His injury is now completely cured and , after an early season rocket from Loftus Road manager Gerry Francis , he has put himself back on the trail to match last term 's 24-goal haul . |
| 21 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In order to pay back , to compensate Ethel Mitchell , she had put herself up to her neck in debt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | Now she is g has put herself down no no Zain . |
| 27 | She has put she 's put herself down for one day at the end of her accounts to learn about accountancy and as Ian pointed out , it 's it 's it 's not a lot . |
| 28 | So that 's not fair really when people have put theirselves out . |
| 29 | that 's right and you know that if the staff has put theirselves out to make a decent crash in their environment they 're gon na go mad at the children if they muck it up , so therefore , you know , you 're gon na have that |
| 30 | But it is publicly acknowledged that these numbers , which represent people who have put themselves forward for testing , are underestimates . |