Example sentences of "[pron] placed [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |
| 2 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 3 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 4 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 5 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 6 | As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks . |
| 7 | As she placed them on the table , Roy spoke up . |
| 8 | Gently she placed them in the carrier bag . |
| 9 | He nodded without looking up as she placed it on the counter . |
| 10 | Then she placed it on the flames . |
| 11 | She placed it on the desk and removed the lid , then the tissue paper underneath . |
| 12 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 13 | We placed it by the spot were she went in and out , and every day I moved her food nearer to the cage until , eventually , she had to go right in to eat . |
| 14 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 15 | Group 5 felt , for example , that sentence ( i ) , the opening of the original and idealised versions , accomplished this much more effectively — which is why they placed it near the end in their version . |
| 16 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 17 | He placed them on the kitchen-dresser , then put away the milk , sugar and butter . |
| 18 | As he caught them , he placed them on the counter in front of her , all in a row , all of them heads . |
| 19 | Sightless , seeing all , he placed them by the bones of his brother . |
| 20 | He placed me on the ground and saw at once that I could not fly . |
| 21 | He placed her on the bed and looked down at her . |
| 22 | When he placed her on the bed and sat beside her she was left in no doubt of his love . |
| 23 | Waiting a moment , he placed it to the boy 's mouth again . |
| 24 | He placed it on the table and took out the contents . |
| 25 | Pushing a chair gently to one side , he placed it on the table and sat down . |
| 26 | He placed it on the bedside table . |
| 27 | He placed it on the table and left slamming the door behind him . |
| 28 | He placed it around the shoulders of the young woman , now almost fainting . |
| 29 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |
| 30 | He placed it in the box and that eventually returned itself to the ticket office . |