Example sentences of "placed it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One five-year-old , for instance , when asked to make one pile so it was tiv , picked up one coin from it , placed it between the two piles , and announced that it was tiv . |
| 2 | The carter said ‘ Yes , please ’ , so Grandmother put the pudding on a plate , placed it on the table , whereupon the carter said ‘ Me and the boy likes the ends ’ . |
| 3 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 4 | Lee had suddenly stopped in the middle of washing up a pottery casserole dish , quietly placed it on the draining-board and sat down on the kitchen floor . |
| 5 | Laidlaw filled the cup with hot water then placed it on the table in front of her . |
| 6 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 7 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 8 | Isabel removed the seven of diamonds from the third row , placed it over the six , on the seventh row , and turned up a new card , the four of hearts . |
| 9 | The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae . |
| 10 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 11 | He found the bug behind the rear lining , held it up , placed it in the sink , reduced the water pressure to a steady flow and eased the bug underneath it . |
| 12 | She stifled an urge to brain her son with it , and instead placed it in the sink . |
| 13 | The gentleman laid several pieces of beef between two slices of bread , and , putting it on his own plate , placed it before the lady . |