Example sentences of "placed [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He placed me on the ground and saw at once that I could not fly . |
| 2 | When we arrived at the market town , my master hired the largest room in the public house , and placed me upon the table there . |
| 3 | George whipped the trousers off the table and placed them on a hanger which he attached to a wooden creel . |
| 4 | Self-consciously they took the tureens from the kitchens into the dining room , placed them on the trolley , and took it round an empty table . |
| 5 | He placed them on the kitchen-dresser , then put away the milk , sugar and butter . |
| 6 | Mobuto folded the glasses and placed them on the coffee table in the centre of the room . |
| 7 | The train stopped , doors slammed , a man further up the line lifted out two suitcases and placed them on the ground . |
| 8 | I then brought two sample-books and placed them on the counter for their perusal . |
| 9 | As he caught them , he placed them on the counter in front of her , all in a row , all of them heads . |
| 10 | She pulled her glasses from her pocket and placed them on the end of her nose . |
| 11 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I understand he 's ill. , Seating herself on one of the wooden chairs , she drew off her fine kid gloves and placed them on the table . |
| 14 | As she placed them on the table , Roy spoke up . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 16 | She placed them in a casserole dish and then shouted for Piers to come inside and eat . |
| 17 | When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy . |
| 18 | In fact the defendants did not consider the transparencies suitable for their project and placed them in a drawer , together with the unread terms , and forgot about them . |
| 19 | At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water . |
| 20 | Once again I scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub . |
| 21 | She took out a bundle of £10 notes each time and placed them in an envelope from her bag . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She staggered over to the freezer , climbed on to a small stool by its side , unwrapped the packages to reveal frozen packs of my beefburgers , and placed them in the freezer , leaning over it until she was almost inside . |
| 24 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |
| 25 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 26 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 27 | George washed up his cup and saucer carefully and placed them in the plastic drainer . |
| 28 | Indeed , the influence of women writers at the time was rising in many areas , as Fanny Burney 's Evelina ( 1778 ) and Hannah Cowley 's dramatic works placed them in the forefront of contemporary literature . |
| 29 | Gently she placed them in the carrier bag . |
| 30 | Sightless , seeing all , he placed them by the bones of his brother . |