Example sentences of "shoot [pn reflx] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education . |
| 2 | I know I think we 've actually shot ourselves in the foot here because I 've never known anything like it . |
| 3 | He 's he 's shot himself in the foot in one sense , because he does n't know what we 've said already , so he may come and say exactly the same thing that we 've been saying , in which case we will cheer and you will boo . |
| 4 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 5 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 6 | ‘ Good , because it seems , ’ said the colonel , placing his monocle up to his left eye , ‘ that Prescott ’ — he studied a buff form on the desk in front of him before continuing ‘ yes , Private Prescott , may have shot himself in the hand in order to avoid facing the enemy . |
| 7 | Yet when Labour 's prospects are rosiest , it always seems to shoot itself in the foot . |
| 8 | Another leisure analyst , who declined to be named , said Airtours had ‘ shot itself in the foot ’ by announcing only last Monday estimated cost savings of £20 million in the 1993/94 financial year if the merger went unconditional . |
| 9 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 10 | But I do n't see why they should be asked to shoot themselves in the foot by paying to train a competitor 's workforce , and neither do they ! ’ |
| 11 | Gerry Collins was concerned that Thistle had shot themselves in the foot again . |
| 12 | He has made no secret of his irritation with the City and its ways , and in the light of the group 's disastrous plunge to losses of £71m for the year to June , shareholders are being presented with a ‘ sell me your shares or shoot yourselves in the foot ’ type offer . |
| 13 | He certainly shot himself in the foot , pulling out of Glastonbury and playing Finsbury Park . |
| 14 | Bordallo , 63 , shot himself in the centre of the island 's capital Agaña , chained to the statue of a 17th century Chamorro chief and wrapped in the island 's flag . |
| 15 | Did you see that ? he nearly shot himself in the butt that time did n't he ? |
| 16 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 17 | THE policeman injured in a chase in the East End accidentally shot himself in the groin as he leapt from a car . |
| 18 | The Frenchman 's only other classic win came in the Bordeaux-Paris race in 1983 , a year before his career was endangered after he shot himself in the hand while hunting . |
| 19 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 20 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 21 | But then she and husband Dave Flame went to a country and western night in cowboy outfits just for fun — and she shot herself in the leg . |
| 22 | Flamboyant Susan Allen , 25 , withdrew a pistol from the Maze Prison armoury on Monday night and shot herself in the head hours later at her Banbridge home . |
| 23 | The Army backs also had their moments , but too often the soldiers shot themselves in the foot as the critical pass was dropped or the wrong option taken . |
| 24 | It is true that there were unforeseen obstacles for Hibs to overcome — not least of which was an ankle injury to goalkeeper Chris Reid who was stretchered off after 37 minutes after a 50-50 challenge with Colin West — but it was difficult to disagree with Alex Miller 's belief that Hibs shot themselves in the foot . |
| 25 | We are in an interesting position , where we could shoot ourselves in the foot — but we want to grow our own business , here in Newtonmore . ’ |
| 26 | I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example . |
| 27 | Instead of shooting ourselves in the foot our people are asking , where does the fi fight start ? |
| 28 | He seems to be playing really well at the moment and to let him go at this stage would be killing shooting ourselves in the foot . |
| 29 | A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday . |
| 30 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |