Example sentences of "put himself [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ a member of a college puts himself voluntarily under a peculiar system of law , and assents to being bound by it , and can not thereafter complain that such system is not in accordance with that adopted by the common law . |
| 2 | Sir Ian was one of those who considered putting himself forward as a candidate , but did n't when Sir Anthony Meyer declared himself . |
| 3 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 4 | Had Vincent sought pain for himself , putting himself forward as the rival of a man who was bound to triumph over him ? |
| 5 | With particular pride he notes how in the crisis of 1124 , when the king of England and the emperor were allied against him , and Henry V planned an attack on Rheims , Louis put himself dramatically under the protection of St Denis , ‘ the special patron and singular protector after God of the kingdom ’ ; how he came to the saint and begged him to defend his kingdom , preserve his person and resist his enemies , as the saint was accustomed to do . |
| 6 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 7 | Furthermore , when it became clear from the tone of the debate that Georgy Razumovsky , Gorbachev 's favoured candidate to head the key statutes commission ( responsible for finalizing the draft party rules ) , would be defeated , Gorbachev instead put himself forward for the post and was approved by a three-to-one majority . |
| 8 | He put himself forward as a self-consciously ordinary man , a politician who asked to be identified with as an equal rather than deferred to as a leader . |
| 9 | In these circumstances Muliro put himself forward as a compromise presidential candidate , and had hoped to heal the rifts in the party at the party conference due in early September . |
| 10 | Among those elected was a former dissident , Daniel Chipenda , who had earlier put himself forward as a candidate for a new post of vice-chairman of the party . |
| 11 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |