Example sentences of "put [pn reflx] on [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Here , significantly , it is only God who puts himself on oath by passing between the pieces .
3 Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight .
4 Putting yourself on view ?
5 As for ‘ aware ’ , its associations are with the cognate ‘ ware ’ , ‘ beware ’ , ‘ wary ’ , ‘ warn ’ ; the analogy is with putting oneself on guard against a peril , a vigilance imposed by pressing need or by duty .
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