Example sentences of "place [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 2 | Jefferson made no public denial , preferring , as he told a friend , to trust his countrymen ‘ to judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me . ’ |
| 3 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 4 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 5 | ‘ He wo n't , then , for he took the cross in the summer , after he 'd placed me here , and went off to join the Bishop of Winchester in the Holy Land , ’ said young Blount delightedly . |
| 6 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 7 | The huge arrangements of garden and wild flowers decorating the rooms were in the positions in which Anna and Charlotte would have placed them . |
| 8 | placed them upon their heads , or on their horses . |
| 9 | But most monks stayed , like Orderic Vitalis ( pp. 14–15 ) , where their parents or their vocation had placed them . |
| 10 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 11 | Had Hester placed them there ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This present dependence on others for the correction of minor matters may trigger more profound resentment in old people about the degree and nature of the dependence in which old age has placed them . |
| 14 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 15 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 16 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 17 | Some £4.25 billion has been thrown away on trying to get the people out of the mess into which the Government have placed them and £5,795 million has been poured in to try to save the Government from embarrassment . |
| 18 | The members of those boards would be saints if they did not seek to take advantage of the position in which the Government have placed them . |
| 19 | Under this stage all holders of vouchers who had not placed them with investment funds were able to use them to apply for shares in the 1,500 companies selected for privatization . |
| 20 | In free as well as in pauper apprenticeship corporal punishment was allowed within reason , and the treatment of the " chimney boys " was as notorious as that of the factory children , for in both cases youngsters were being consigned to labour in conditions in which few parents would willingly have placed them . |
| 21 | ‘ To find the correct homeopathic remedy for any condition , the symptoms are diagnosed in those terms , and the Materia Medica places them under those headings : location , sensation etc . ’ |
| 22 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 23 | There is general recognition that , although social workers and their agencies can not combat the structural causes of social problems , their knowledge of the effects of poverty and other disadvantages places them in a unique position to influence social policies ( Wharf , 1985 ; Townsend et al . , |
| 24 | HRM does not invalidate the procedures and skills of personnel management but , rather , places them in a different conceptual framework . |
| 25 | The pluralizing nature of texts as varied as Robbe-Grillet 's Le Miroir qui revient and La Maison de Rendez-vous , Claude Simon 's Triptyque and Les Géorgiques , Pinget 's L'Apocryphe and Sarraute 's Enfance places them firmly within the postmodernist camp . |
| 26 | In this connection McClellan has written that the librarian does not reject books , but places them on a ‘ scale of accessibility ’ . |
| 27 | This places them intermediate between categories 2 and 3 . |
| 28 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 29 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 30 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |