Example sentences of "[pron] puts [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 Here , significantly , it is only God who puts himself on oath by passing between the pieces .
2 It is very important to go to the mikva on time , and the woman who puts herself out and goes to the mikva even when it is not convenient to go , is commended by the rabbis in Jewish literature .
3 When she puts herself down , we can accept her .
4 It requires great restraint not to smother children with good intentions , to endure those looks of disappointment , and to banish feelings of guilt when one puts oneself first .
5 So that when you go into the Drama Studio with a group of students … and when you do decent work with them , everybody puts himself on the line , everybody .
6 By drawing a rectangle round ‘ it 's a chronicle ’ Dostoevsky suggests a framed narrative for The Possessed like the story found by the frame narrator among a deceased ex-convict 's effects in The House of the Dead ; and by declaring ‘ I am a character ’ ( kharakter : a person , not a literary personazh ) he puts himself inside that frame .
7 He puts himself about a lot , tackles hard and works hard , ’ Bingham said .
8 Believing that an artist has to suffer to make his statement , he puts himself through dangerous sequences like cutting off his breathing .
9 He puts himself forward as its leader .
10 He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul .
11 He puts himself too completely into the role of the good man here , behaving .
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