Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are particularly useful with boisterous fish ( when they can be siliconed into place ) , or herbivorous species . |
| 2 | Heavy beams were lifted into place using a wooden hoist , but a lot of the work was done by sheer muscle power and would have been carried out by slaves . |
| 3 | Below : The piston is lifted into place by volunteers who painstakingly restored the Fielding engine . |
| 4 | The filming crew spent a full morning digging a suitably sized pit with a sloping ramp , filling it in again once the Dalek had been rolled into place . |
| 5 | The old lady smiled to herself , a secret smile that implied that the final clue in her private internal crossword had slotted into place . |
| 6 | The SDS drill bits have four slots in the shank which are quickly slotted into place in the tool holder . |
| 7 | There was also one piece of the jigsaw that now slotted into place : before June died , he took LSD in controlled circumstances with a therapist : ‘ I became conscious of very early emotions about not being wanted — feeling that I was a problem to my family as an infant . ’ |
| 8 | Heavy doors were pulled across , their latches slotted into place . |
| 9 | Sections are easily slotted into place — tube into socket |
| 10 | One last idea was slotted into place in this 11 September broadcast . |
| 11 | The final pieces of the puzzle had now been slotted into place . |
| 12 | With a sigh of relief as the second tile slotted into place , she replaced the chisel in her back pocket and began to edge backwards until Leo could grasp her ankles and guide her feet to the top of the ladder . |
| 13 | After half-an-hour of this eventually the other wheel dropped into place . |
| 14 | Finally , a network of graphic colour was dropped into place , giving the piece sufficient definition to be recognisable , enough contrast to seem solid and enough contrast to seem solid and enough content to be of interest . |
| 15 | A KEY piece in BNFL 's reprocessing strategy jigsaw has dropped into place with the completion of construction of Sellafield 's second Encapsulation Plant . |
| 16 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 17 | ‘ Crimes ’ varied from place to place and from time-period to time-period ; they reflected the interests , moral concerns and ideological positions of those who were in the power positions that defined and enforced them . |
| 18 | And where they were employed , their duties varied from place to place — some fulfilled judicial as well as financial functions , others might even have a military role . |
| 19 | Opportunities for wives and children to contribute to the household income varied from place to place , though they were everywhere low paid . |
| 20 | The size of a çift varied from place to place , according to the fertility of the soil , and ranged between four and thirty-five acres . |
| 21 | The copper content varied from place to place but rich solid chalcopyrite was found in places , particularly where veins came together or at junctions with cross-faults to form " bunches " . |
| 22 | In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy . |
| 23 | The lord 's power to remove the inhabitants of a village varied from place to place . |
| 24 | Once the rails are firmly fixed , panels and centre uprights are dropped in place |
| 25 | With either of these two methods , the pipe can either be mortared in place ( using a 2:1 sand:cement mix ) or fitted with a special adaptor to seal the joint . |
| 26 | The 1941 Model Ercoupe 415 , now with that reliable old sewing machine the Continental C68 installed in place of the IL–116 , sold for just $2,640 ready to fly away , and was the perfect machine for the job . |
| 27 | He tried to close them but the eyelids were frozen in place , unable to move . |
| 28 | For a moment the sheer gall of the man kept her frozen in place , then Shannon shook his hand away , her eyes shooting sparks of contempt as she glowered up at him . |
| 29 | For a long time , the study of accents was part of the subject of dialectology , which aimed to identify all the ways in which a language differed from place to place . |
| 30 | Two 1½″ tank connectors were siliconed in place here and the connections constructed for the pump and sump drain as shown in the diagram . |