Example sentences of "place [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 2 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 3 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 4 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 5 | They erm , what they do they drive these big Tugmasters now with these lorries so that they plant all these erm forty foot trailers with er with er erm with a container on and place them on the ship . |
| 6 | It would be possible to test a large sample of readers , who would read nine texts and place them on the network . |
| 7 | ‘ Small businesses are operated by individuals who place everything on the line that is their money , their skills , their enthusiasm and , in many cases , the matrimonial home . ’ |
| 8 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 9 | Place him on the bed . ’ |
| 10 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 11 | The leader then calls for items , and the first person from one of the teams brings the article and places it on the chair . |
| 12 | The literary text may negotiate with its containment ( as Shakespeare 's do ) , but its contemporary subversive force has been compromised by the political dominance of state power which excludes it from the centre and places it on the margins of socially sanctioned institutions . |
| 13 | As she turned to greet the father with his offspring , the midwife could not believe her ears : ‘ Place it on the fire , ’ he commanded . |
| 14 | From the clew first position release your back hand and place it on the mast below the boom . |
| 15 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 16 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 17 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |
| 18 | The object is for players , taking it in turns , to remove one of the pieces and place it on the top without the whole structure collapsing . |
| 19 | Place it on the table in front of you . |
| 20 | If properly encouraged , they could carry the small amount of pollen necessary for fertilisation and place it on the exact spot in the female flower where it was required . |
| 21 | You take a piece of perfectly clean white tissue paper and you place it on the of the etching plate . |
| 22 | A bigger pad over the top , there 's the sling and towards your casualty and place it on the body down the straight and the elbow and the point at the same side , tuck this hand under and tuck all this underneath the arm and bring the rest of it round the back , tie it up as close to the fingers as you can and try to remember how to do a reef knot , at least always make sure it 's firm , is that alright for you ? |
| 23 | To use , you simply place it on the barbecue and light with a match . |
| 24 | They place themselves on the same plane as trees or stones . |
| 25 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 26 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 27 | He placed me on the ground and saw at once that I could not fly . |
| 28 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 29 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 30 | He placed them on the kitchen-dresser , then put away the milk , sugar and butter . |