Example sentences of "placed it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The pimp took the strip and placed it over the other girl 's mouth .
2 Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been .
3 He removed his straw hat and placed it on the empty chair beside him .
4 She took some bread from the pantry cupboard and placed it on the wooden table .
5 For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years .
6 So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter .
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