Example sentences of "placed [pers pn] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He placed them on the kitchen-dresser , then put away the milk , sugar and butter . |
| 5 | Mobuto folded the glasses and placed them on the coffee table in the centre of the room . |
| 6 | The train stopped , doors slammed , a man further up the line lifted out two suitcases and placed them on the ground . |
| 7 | I then brought two sample-books and placed them on the counter for their perusal . |
| 8 | As he caught them , he placed them on the counter in front of her , all in a row , all of them heads . |
| 9 | She pulled her glasses from her pocket and placed them on the end of her nose . |
| 10 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As she placed them on the table , Roy spoke up . |
| 14 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | George washed up his cup and saucer carefully and placed them in the plastic drainer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Gently she placed them in the carrier bag . |
| 23 | Sightless , seeing all , he placed them by the bones of his brother . |
| 24 | In addition , despite a disarmingly pleasant manner , Reagan was widely considered to harbour views that placed him outside the mainstream of American politics ; there was a possibility that he might tamper with social security or lead his country into war . |
| 25 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 26 | His comments inspired the students , but placed him on the list of suspicious intellectuals . |
| 27 | Partly in order to show the world ( and , perhaps , reassure himself ) that " his destiny and that of Spain [ were ] consubstantial and that God [ had ] placed him in the position which he [ occupied ] for great things " . |
| 28 | Sophia placed him in the middle of the cake which was covered with white icing forked up into ridges . |
| 29 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
| 30 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |