Example sentences of "put myself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the ones I definitely know I 'm going to get appointments with , if I go and do that , I put myself into a comfort zone do n't I ? |
| 2 | Put myself in their hands . ’ |
| 3 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 4 | God forbid it if ever I put myself in your position ! |
| 5 | Aware that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had a massive audience , ranging from children to grandparents , Crawford said , ‘ I then go and put myself before the public ’ as Billy Liar , whose first words as he comes on stage are along the lines of ‘ Christ Almighty , bloody , blimey ! ’ in a song . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 7 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 8 | He told me not to put myself into my work , and not to poeticise things ( I am a poet ! ) . |
| 9 | I was trying to put myself into X. Ray 's head . |
| 10 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
| 11 | I vowed never to put myself in that position again , ’ she says . |
| 12 | I try to put myself in their shoes , because it can not be emphasized often enough that business is very much like war , despite the optimistic view that there is enough scope and space for everybody to be successful . |
| 13 | ‘ I was only trying to put myself in his place , ’ Carrie said . |
| 14 | yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it . |
| 15 | It was difficult for me to put myself in the Guérigny frame of mind , to accommodate both the knowledge of a beloved 's death and the sense of her imminent return . |
| 16 | ‘ I try to put myself in other people 's shoes . |
| 17 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |
| 18 | I 've done nothing to put myself in a position where I have … hit men coming after me ! ’ |
| 19 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 20 | Today I 've rather put myself under a strain . |
| 21 | If they think I 'm pretty , that 's nice , I 'm complimented ; but if they do n't think I am , I have n't put myself on the line . |
| 22 | Tell me the truth , ’ I insisted , putting myself between him and the door . |
| 23 | Why am I putting myself through all this ? |
| 24 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
| 25 | I remember when I first saw simulated sex on TV , putting myself in the place of the woman , the man on top of me . |
| 26 | On the cover of her autobiography , ‘ Putting Myself in the Picture ’ , she appears as a middle-aged schoolgirl , a sad red ribbon dragging back her hair , an ugly navy jumper over a regulation white blouse . |
| 27 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 28 | I ca n't help putting myself in his place , of course , as he looks for ways to contain someone we both regard as an outsider . |
| 29 | And then when I gave you the minimum premium er it was like right okay well that 's , that 's the easy way out is n't it , twenty quid a month , okay I might do something for twenty quid because I was n't committed and that 's what exploration of needs is all about and it 's , it 's so easy for me to sit and say yeah that 's what you need to do but putting myself in your shoes , you know , a few years ago |
| 30 | The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’ |