Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] they in [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry .
2 Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table .
3 Alternatively , enclose in clean , clear polythene bags or cover with cling film to prevent moisture loss and stand them in a warm place .
4 When at last the joss stick on the altar burned down , their mother ushered them to their father 's study and arranged them in a line before his writing-table on which the bamboo cane had already been laid out .
5 Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams .
6 No , I mean , oven chips you can just put them on the tray and bung them in the oven .
7 She makes her own glazes from vegetable ash and fires them in a small wood-burning kiln we built together . ’
8 They had crossed the market , the shopping centre , passed the churches , chapels , religious meeting rooms , fighting to outdo each other and against the countless bars ; even hoping through the wave of religious revival , and the example set by the Queen herself , that they would eventually withdraw sinners from the flames of hell-fire and place them in the arms of the Lord .
9 Lord Justice Watkins said Mr Bartle applied his mind to the correct principles of law and applied them in a manner which could not be faulted .
10 They put pins in their chairs , threw their clothes out of the window and locked them in the bathroom .
11 First clear the six flat rocks from your plot and drop 'em in the tip .
12 This identifies the group of items likely to give the best return on the exercise and puts them in an order of priority .
13 This identifies the group of items likely to give the best return on the exercise and puts them in an order of priority .
14 Supposedly a giant called Cormoran , known as the Lord of St Michael 's Mount , carried the boulders from the mainland and dumped them in the sea to make the mound .
15 For a high-tea or supper meal spread smoked haddock paste on fingers of hot toast and arrange them in a circle around a dish of scrambled eggs .
16 ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops !
17 ‘ And I was walking past the T-shirt stall and this girl I know who does Jesus Jones ' T-shirts ran over to me and said , This guy wants to talk to you — he wants to talk to you — he wants to buy the rights for that T-shirt and put them in the shops !
18 He was milking the audience for all he could get : throwing the balls out in every direction and catching them in a windmill of arms .
19 We used to hunt rats in the basement and put them in the traps , when I was a lad . ’
20 They they are obliged to take the structure plans strategy and proposals on board and to interpret them in the in the local plan in the round .
21 In the absence of transactions costs and the option premium this series of contracts would permit the investor to buy the shares at 220p from the writer and sell them in the market for 237p thus gaining a gross profit of 17p per share .
22 She folded his discarded jeans and shirt and stowed them in a locker , then turned his sleeping-bag inside out and shook it .
23 At the dump , we took two yellow bags which had been left by the truck and put them in the boot of a car .
24 I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state .
25 We move them around deliberately , to gain experience and to put them in a different environment so that they come forward with fresh ideas . ’
26 I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall .
27 I cut them in half , discarding the pointed end for the moment and place them in a seed tray or wooden tomato box on layers of newspaper , narrow ends uppermost .
28 However , it is likely to be preferable to limit the range of choices facing the teacher at any moment and to group them in a natural way from a teaching point of view .
29 Eddy v Niman is open to the criticism that in the terms of s.3(1) there was an assumption of the rights of the owner when he took the goods from the shelf and placed them in the shopping trolley .
30 A statement which reads data in internal format from a file and puts them in the specified variables .
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