Example sentences of "have put [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He has put himself beyond the pale — I have forbidden you to speak of him . ’
2 Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him .
7 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 ?
8 Pascal warned that ‘ hearsay is so far from being a criterion of belief that you should not believe anything until you have put yourself into the same state as if you had never heard it . ’
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