Example sentences of "[noun] and place [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is merely the reaction time required in picking up the card and placing it on a pile without making any choice based on the value of the card . |
| 2 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |
| 3 | Remember to fill in your medical card and place it inside your hat in case of injury . |
| 4 | He went to the lavatory , lifted a large tin bath off its wall hook , took it into the bedroom and placed it on the floor . |
| 5 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 6 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 7 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 8 | He took out a large photograph and placed it on her knee , taking her cup from her with the same effortless movement . |
| 9 | The usual practice in most offices is for a post-clerk or secretary to open all the incoming mail and to place it in the in-tray of the appropriate recipient . |
| 10 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 11 | As a final gesture , Tamino removes the hard-won Symbol of the Sun from his own neck and places it round Pamina 's : ‘ It 's a breakthrough — a new order breaking the mould of the past . ’ |
| 12 | Her maternal instincts would be so strong that she would be unable to resist their calls for help and would soon approach them , pick them up individually in her mouth and place them in her bed . |
| 13 | We begin , however , with an examination of a recommendation which , when introduced , will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court . |
| 14 | The Office of Fair Trading agreed that ‘ from a competition viewpoint there might be a great deal of benefit in combining the two funds and placing them on insurance principles , setting premiums on the basis of risk ’ . |
| 15 | The trip to the countryside enables each working man , woman and child to look down upon Villefranche and place it in perspective . |
| 16 | Mrs Bannerji brought two new cups of tea and placed them beside Pakeezah Begum 's big , black bakelite telephone . |
| 17 | Pat poured the doctor out a cup of tea and placed it on the bedside table . |
| 18 | Celia arrived with a tray of tea and placed it on the table . |
| 19 | Juliet fished the boiled eggs from the saucepan and placed them in eggcups . |
| 20 | To ‘ freeze-dry ’ his wigs , David simply applies gel to the wigs and places them in the freezer for 30 minutes ! |
| 21 | That evening , while the rest of the family watched Dixon of Dock Green , I gathered together the total ensemble and placed it upon my person . |
| 22 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 23 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They had crossed the market , the shopping centre , passed the churches , chapels , religious meeting rooms , fighting to outdo each other and against the countless bars ; even hoping through the wave of religious revival , and the example set by the Queen herself , that they would eventually withdraw sinners from the flames of hell-fire and place them in the arms of the Lord . |
| 26 | He pushed the wadding carefully into the cartridge before taking it from Benny and placing it on the garden wall . |
| 27 | I obtained five small imported specimens of about 1½″ and placed them in my fish room in a prepared 18″ × 12″ × 12″ tank , leaving them to settle . |
| 28 | Make two semi-circular cakes and place them on top of each other to make a football . |
| 29 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 30 | I took off the stupid visor and placed it behind the conifer . |