Example sentences of "and place [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
3 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
4 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
5 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
6 | Serving and former guardsmen stood to attention as Princess Diana , dressed in black , took the wreath from two old soldiers and placed it at the foot of the memorial in Horseguards Parade . |
7 | She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs . |
8 | Finally he stood and placed it at the head of the mound . |
9 | Each girl lit a candle and placed it at the altar , symbolic of the light of Christ which burns throughout the world . |