Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] its [adj] place " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ At first the idea of writing a wind serenade to precede The Marriage of Figaro was daunting : it has such an exciting overture , it certainly needs no further curtain-raiser — and what if I took a theme from the opera and overdid it , so no wanted to hear it in its proper place ? |
2 | Lavender put her pencils back into the rather damp pencil-box and returned it to its correct place on her own desk . |
3 | This should be laid to the side intact so that you can restore it to its original place when the hole is refilled once the digging is completed . |
4 | One of the women pierced it in its tenderest place . |
5 | She was lifting it into its accustomed place on the top of his bookcase when he came in . |