Example sentences of "put [pn reflx] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 2 | Presumably when you do land in a position like that even though as you say you 're getting near the end of the game for the blue ball , you would n't deliberately not go through the hoop , if you 'll put in that , if you put yourself in that position ? |
| 3 | In developing an image , you and your workers , professional or voluntary , have to swallow your pride , smile at yourselves and put yourselves in second place to getting the message across — not easy , not often said , but true ! |
| 4 | in the erm well silly to put yourself in that predicament would n't it ? |
| 5 | I vowed never to put myself in that position again , ’ she says . |
| 6 | ‘ I try to put myself in other people 's shoes . |
| 7 | Every effort should be made to discover whether the family have the ability to put themselves in hypothetical situations and conceptualise and deal with the difficulties that are likely to arise with the black child , particularly during adolescence . |
| 8 | Their personal safety was guaranteed by an old-fashioned exchange of hostages : senior Iraqis travelled to Arbil to put themselves in Kurdish hands — taking a risk , given Mr Hussein 's record in disposing of unwanted colleagues . |
| 9 | We 're not putting ourselves in that position — all we 're doing is selling music . ’ |
| 10 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 11 | Yet I recall an episode many years ago in which a man deliberately put himself in this predicament . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When injured it becomes a less efficient hunting machine and puts itself in considerable danger . |
| 14 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |
| 15 | or anything , I really do n't think anyone should put themselves in that position . |
| 16 | My experience is that students of literature , and teachers of literature , too , I would even put myself in that category , are not very good conceptually , they respond more to actual texts in a sort of affective way , or quasi-sensuous way . |
| 17 | Yes , well I was , I was erm , I must put myself in historical context . |