Example sentences of "place himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place himself in your trust . |
| 2 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 3 | The court held that where a person places himself in danger and it is foreseeable that another person may attempt a rescue , the rescued person owes a duty of care to the rescuer . |
| 4 | This case supports the view expressed in Baker v Hopkins that a person who places himself in danger may owe a duty of care to a rescuer . |
| 5 | Like Pynchon , he has admitted an influence from Kerouac and the Beats , and , in his 1973 article ‘ The New Tradition ’ , Sukenick places himself within a late phase of the modernists ' ‘ Revolution of the Word ’ where verbal and structural experimentation were aimed at coping with the enigmatic nature of the world ( Federman 1975 : 42 ) . |
| 6 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 16 | The next customer was a thin elderly man , he placed himself on a seat and wanted to be served . |
| 17 | We were sitting on rather low chairs , and he was very tall , so that when he placed himself at my corner his impedimenta were almost on a level with my nose . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
| 19 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | Then , snatching a lance from one of them , he placed himself at the apex and , couching the lance , shouted to charge . |
| 21 | Acland placed himself at the head of the ‘ moral renaissance ’ , consolidating a personal following built around his best-selling books and endless public meetings into a loose organization called ‘ Forward March ’ . |
| 22 | In June 1263 , however , when Simon of Montfort [ q.v. ] resurrected the cause of the Provisions and advanced on the capital , Fitzthomas placed himself at the head of ‘ the people ’ who had taken to the streets in Montfort 's support . |
| 23 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 24 | He rose from the sofa and placed himself in front of a picture . |
| 25 | R. M. Harmer , author of the Corporation section of the first edition of this book , placed himself in such a position as to be issued the last ticket ( for a 6 pence fare ) . |
| 26 | ‘ The Master took them quietly from his person and told him such things were not allowed to be introduced into the workhouse , he then placed himself in a fighting attitude and threatened to knock the Master 's teeth down his throat , thereby setting bad examples to others ’ |
| 27 | Wycliffe and Curtis sat in the stern while Smith placed himself in the lee of the fo'c'sle on a little tip-up seat by the wheel . |
| 28 | Despite the Gorbachev-Yeltsin alliance on reform , Gorbachev on Aug. 23 placed himself in conflict with the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet , issuing a presidential decree overruling an Aug. 9 decree by that body 's presidium . |
| 29 | Colour Sgt Oram 's Queen 's Gallantry Medal was awarded after he placed himself in the firing line time and time again saving the lives of others . |
| 30 | Colour Sgt Oram 's Queen 's Gallantry Medal , was awarded after he placed himself in the firing line time and time again saving the lives of others . |