Example sentences of "and put [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative . |
| 3 | Aware that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had a massive audience , ranging from children to grandparents , Crawford said , ‘ I then go and put myself before the public ’ as Billy Liar , whose first words as he comes on stage are along the lines of ‘ Christ Almighty , bloody , blimey ! ’ in a song . |
| 4 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |
| 5 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 6 | We , we ca n't stand there in front of members and put ourselves in the firing line if we do n't know the answers to their questions . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | What I want to do is try and find out , we 'll try and put ourselves in the criminal 's er position and then s see how we go about breaking into a house . |
| 9 | It moves me playing it and it upsets me playing it , it 's very upsetting to play Alfie , because A he 's such a disastrous man as a person d you know you think oh god I do n't really wan na be playing this man for sixteen weeks but the part is so wonderful and the play is so rich that you ca n't help s sort of s submitting to it and putting yourself in the position of being a masochist I suppose . |
| 10 | By resorting to guns , even toy ones , are the Lithuanians forfeiting the rights of democrats and putting themselves on the same level as the Soviet troops ? |
| 11 | Retiring partners would still have the difficulty of disposing of their shares on retirement and putting themselves within the scope of retirement relief . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps you would be so kind as to empty the bath for me later ? ’ she asked , forcing a half smile and putting herself between Matthew and his sister . |
| 13 | When injured it becomes a less efficient hunting machine and puts itself in considerable danger . |
| 14 | To Hugh le Despenser on the same day , he expressed similar views and put himself at Despenser 's disposal as an intermediary with Charles IV . |
| 15 | This type of day was guaranteed to exhaust even the most energetic youngster , and he would thankfully walk home , to watch television , eat his supper and put himself to bed . |
| 16 | JAN Molby will bid to shake off his tag as the ‘ forgotten man ’ of Denmark tomorrow — and put himself in line for a place against Northern Ireland next month . |
| 17 | JAN Molby will bid to shake off his tag as the ‘ forgotten man ’ of Denmark tomorrow — and put himself in line for a place against Northern Ireland next month . |
| 18 | I wanted to make certain I was leaving the jeep with Kaptan — I wanted to establish my connection with the family , give a hint of trouble I could solve ( without making it look like a threat ) , and put myself into the frame without a hint of asserting myself . |
| 19 | I refused to let the nurse wield her scissors on them and put myself through gyrations of a one-legged contortionist to get them off whole . |
| 20 | ‘ So I stayed in Hong Kong , flew back and forth to New York , worked at Swift to keep myself busy , and fended off a lot of very annoying letters from my mother and sister , both incessantly wondering when I was going to come to Kenya and put myself through their combined emotional wringer . ’ |
| 21 | Apply the principles : check it out ahead of time and put yourself in the other person 's place . |
| 22 | Deaconess Tilley plumped her bag on the table and put herself between Mrs Yaxlee and the window . |
| 23 | To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous . |