Example sentences of "to put [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ai n't come to put yerself in pawn , 'ave you ? |
| 2 | As regular , well-known members of the church it is difficult to put ourselves into the shoes of the first-time visitor . |
| 3 | They tempt us to put ourselves into their skins and imagine what their lives are like . |
| 4 | It is important that we continue to put ourselves into all sorts of learning situations so that we recognise what we need to do or stop doing with our pupils . |
| 5 | Robert , let's start by trying to put ourselves into context . |
| 6 | During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image . |
| 7 | So when Hollywood makes a film about a brutal gang rape in the back of a bar , written and directed by men , the reaction tends to be why on earth would we want to put ourselves through that in the name of entertainment ? |
| 8 | We 're going to always have to fight against it and we 're always going to have to put ourselves on the agenda and put our issues on the agenda . |
| 9 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 10 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 11 | The IMF 's programme in Trinidad and Tobago is a case in point and in his resignation letter Budhoo asserts : ‘ We manipulated , blatantly and systematically , certain key statistical indices so as to put ourselves in a position where we could make very false pronouncements about ( the ) economic and financial performance of that country . ’ |
| 12 | He would need to be continually finding opportunities to put himself on display to the populace : walkabouts , tours of business premises and factories and farms , appearances in pubs and clubs , visits to colleges and hospitals and homes for the elderly , attendances at all sorts of social functions and ceremonies — the list could be endless . |
| 13 | He spoke as man to men , dominating them with his prestige , without trying to put himself on a lower level , as do those who form a false picture of the people . |
| 14 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 15 | No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors . |
| 16 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 17 | It seemed like an excellent opportunity to put himself to the test , see if his reflexes were as finely honed as they had been in the old days . |
| 18 | He found it worth while to put himself to the trouble of finishing touches . |
| 19 | However , to knock down old buildings was to put himself beyond the pale — not before time perhaps , but hardly for the right reason . |
| 20 | For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live , as the greatest he ; and therefore truly , sir , I think it 's clear , that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government ; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under ; … ( p. 53 ) |
| 21 | He is n't going to put himself through all that again . ’ |
| 22 | I mean , he was able to put himself among the duped . |
| 23 | He must still be in with a chance of making the tour — although Andy Gregory 's 11th-hour decision to put himself in the frame must have reduced the odds somewhat . |
| 24 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 25 | The former Swansea City player unleashed a spectacular strike in front of the television cameras to put himself in contention for goal of the month . |
| 26 | But this had never required him to put himself in the spotlight . |
| 27 | or the one who seeks to put himself in the place of Christ . |
| 28 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 29 | a person in a fiduciary position … is not … entitled to make a profit ; he is not allowed to put himself in a position where his interest and duty conflict . |
| 30 | Clause 8 provides the necessary precautionary provision to prevent the buyer claiming that he has the right to intellectual property arising out of any development work which the seller has had to effect in order to put himself in a position to supply the goods under the contract . |