Example sentences of "placed [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 2 | He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought . |
| 3 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 4 | A young man placed himself between the shafts of the trap and prepared to pull his passengers round the village , but not before the publican had been fined a barrel of beer for speaking at the same time as the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ . |
| 5 | Unthinking , he had placed himself not in front of the desk but at an angle to it so that he was closer to the pipes , and he wondered how long the interview would last because it was short of thirty minutes until the call to the Kitchen for dinner and the hunger pain pinched at his stomach . |
| 6 | Belatedly aware of the grave situation in which he had foolishly placed himself , Kluck now had no option but to turn his army to face westward to counter Maunoury 's ever-growing threat . |
| 7 | In France , however , there also existed a very different tradition , that of the history of the sciences , a tradition in which Foucault has placed himself . |
| 8 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 9 | Charles now placed himself on a par with Lothar and Louis the German ( whose teenage sons had recently begun to play an active political role themselves ) . |
| 10 | There could be no doubt that by competing with the plaintiffs both as regards supplies and customers he had placed himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interest and duty . |
| 11 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 12 | Brian Hall , safety and training officer at Redpath Offshore , said he found it difficult to explain why Mr Eaton had placed himself under the pipe . |
| 13 | The parliamentary straightjacket which the Labour Party had placed itself in was inimical to violent change . |
| 14 | Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself . |
| 15 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 16 | In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts . |
| 17 | It was not until 1962 , when the Organisation of American States resolved that Cuba had voluntarily placed itself outside the inter-American system , that Castro — finding a temperamental and ideological disposition backed up by pressing security considerations — switched his energies to the export of revolution on a more substantial level . |
| 18 | Five days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 Turkey had unequivocally placed itself in the anti-Iraq camp with a series of economic sanctions ( including the blocking of the pipelines which were Iraq 's principal route for the export of oil ) which were to prove crucial , as Turkey was one of Iraq 's major trading partners [ see p. 37641 ] . |
| 19 | She 'd placed herself at his mercy . |
| 20 | She had seen their craft land only minutes earlier and had placed herself deliberately here where they would have to pass her . |
| 21 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 22 | Lifting her bag from the shelf , she slung the strap over her shoulder and turned to go , only to find that the woman had placed herself between her and the door . |
| 23 | He let the sentence hang unfinished , and she shivered , struck anew by the danger she 'd voluntarily placed herself in . |
| 24 | Marc , naturally assuming the head of the table , frowned when he saw where she had placed herself , but said nothing . |
| 25 | Twice you have placed yourself at risk for Ana . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ? |
| 27 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 28 | One moment which I recall vividly illuminates the problematic position in which I had placed myself . |
| 29 | The competition was , alas , horrific , as they had ill-advisedly placed themselves in a predominantly female quarter of the hall , where few boys were bold enough to venture . |
| 30 | Lawbreakers have placed themselves outside of society by committing their offences , but the penal process should ultimately aim at returning them to society as full members . |