Example sentences of "[verb] they in the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 2 | Sometimes the they make a fuss if you put them in the wrong place . |
| 3 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 4 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 5 | In this arcade adventure the aim is to collect the correct objects and drop them in the right place at the right time . |
| 6 | Fleeing the slaughter , he hid himself in Hamilton Kirk where : ‘ A number of other fugitives following him into the church were pursued by the dragoons , who , regardless of their cries for mercy , butchered them in the sacred place . ’ |