Example sentences of "place [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Christian communicators in Asia we place ourselves at the service of those challenges , well aware that we need to conscientise people as much as we need to be conscientised . |
| 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 male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 4 | Those who do not voluntarily or semi-voluntarily place themselves under the authority of relatively just governments are under a partial and qualified obligation to recognize the authority of such a government in their country . |
| 5 | Nowadays such national sentiments are also defended by those who place themselves within the traditions of liberalism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then , snatching a lance from one of them , he placed himself at the apex and , couching the lance , shouted to charge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 20 | I turned off the road when I drew level with the Brigadier and his Officers , and placed myself on the right of Mills Roberts as the Brigade swept past to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 21 | As soon as Silver disappeared , we got ready for a battle , placing ourselves around the sides of the stockade . |
| 22 | I know that we 're all in a state of shock and wondering where to place ourselves on the spectrum between quietism at one end and terrorism on the other , but , as a response to an altered environment , this reminded me appallingly of the turtles who , so the legend goes , were hatched on a Pacific atoll where a nuclear blast had been carried out . |
| 23 | On this occasion , we had come to place ourselves under the authority of the hairdressers , to cast ourselves upon their mercy since , with the snip of the scissors , our dreams could be realized or ruined . |
| 24 | Law conceived of the role of the leader in an exactly opposite sense from Balfour : he sought to foster unity by placing himself at the head of the discordant elements where Balfour had thrown the leadership on the side of restraint . |
| 25 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |
| 26 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board 's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy — using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross . |
| 28 | As she reached the bottom of the stairs , Araminta herself waylaid her , coming out of the shadows to place herself in the companion 's way . |
| 29 | I did n't want to place myself in the hands of someone who might insist on more than I was prepared to give . |
| 30 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |