Example sentences of "[vb past] place [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridge moved up a place at the weekend to fourth from bottom , without playing a game , as Bedlington had three points deducted for playing an ineligible player , and so swapped places with the Darlington club . |
| 2 | No tangible improvement in the situation had resulted from a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Senegal and Mauritania in Paris in early January 1990 , and later that month an exchange of heavy artillery fire took place across the Senegal river boundary . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to know what discussions took place during the Rover negotiations on other civil and military issues ; on launch aid for the Airbus ; and on the general tax affairs of British Aerospace . |
| 4 | No doubt many of the crucial steps in insect evolution took place during the Devonian , but of this phase of insect history there is very little record . |
| 5 | ‘ The term ’ commenced in September with a talk by Guy Stobart of Burges Salmon on ‘ Pitfalls of taking security ’ which took place aboard the MSV Lochiel moored in Bristol harbour . |
| 6 | The first high-level contact since January 1985 took place between the USA and Nicaragua in September 1989 when the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State , Janet Mullins , met Ortega . |
| 7 | When the discussions took place with the UNHCR , did the problem of the Kurds come up ? |
| 8 | Discussions of many kinds took place with the DES , and even as Chief Officer-designate , Kerr had seen Margaret Thatcher , Secretary of State for Education and Science , to discuss the possibility of CNAA involvement . |
| 9 | The next major episode of industrial conflict took place at the Grunwick film-processing factory in London , where workers — a high proportion of them Asian women — were demanding the right to unionise . |
| 10 | Members of the national and specialist press attended the launch of Head 's new Anatom System tennis shoe , which took place at the Roehampton Club during April . |
| 11 | Then on 21 May , while Gandhi languished in jail , one of the great set pieces of the civil disobedience movement , more successful perhaps than any other in arousing world-wide sympathy with the Indian cause , took place at the Dharsana salt works . |
| 12 | The September 27 show took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum , situated in downtown LA , which was badly hit in the April riots . |
| 13 | It is his first gallery exhibition in this country for more than five years and follows the exhilarating survey which took place at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989 . |
| 14 | Sponsored crazy ball bounces took place at the Kent Rally and in all 's classes to support the ‘ Be a Sport for Comic Relief ’ campaign . |
| 15 | Since a more widely ranging survey of Ernst 's art , selected by leading authority , Werner Spies , and attempting , not entirely convincingly , to rehabilitate the artist 's later work , took place at the Tate Gallery in 1991 and was shown in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf , this exhibition will not be presented in any European museum . |
| 16 | If , when you attended the major retrospective of your works which recently took place at the Tate Gallery , someone had asked you : Marcel Duchamp , what have you done with your life ? |
| 17 | Down in Frome they were preparing for the worst ; on 23 February 1798 a meeting of the ‘ inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Frome ’ took place at the George Inn . |
| 18 | The Bowling Club 's ceremony took place at the Wedgwood Pavilion Club and entertainment included a comedian and singer . |
| 19 | This first " strand " of the talks took place at the Stormont parliament building outside Belfast ; a venue had yet to be agreed for subsequent " strands " involving the Irish ( Dublin ) government [ see pp. 38111-12 ] . |
| 20 | The event took place at the Harwich School , but students from Tendring High School , Clacton County High School , Colbayns School at Clacton and Brightlingsea 's Colne High School , also joined in . |
| 21 | These were organised by Roger Draper , and took place at The Hong Kong Arts Centre ( 17 Nov ) , The City Hall Concert Hall ( 21 Nov ) and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall ( 25 Nov ) . |
| 22 | The confrontation took place at the Chi Ma Wan island detention centre , which houses those believed to be next in line for deportation . |
| 23 | The first Cubist manifestation took place at the Salon des Indépendants of 1911 . |
| 24 | The National Council meeting in Spring unanimously elected into the Company of Fellows and the presentation of his certificate took place at the Peebles conference . |
| 25 | This event , which took place at the Scarborough Congress in 1980 , epitomised the preceding years of change , as he spelt out in his farewell speech : The first BDA Congress I attended was nearly fifty years ago … |
| 26 | The first part of the 44th regular session of the UN General Assembly took place at the UN headquarters in New York from Sept. 19 to Dec. 29 , 1989 , chaired by Maj.-Gen. |
| 27 | The much-hyped arm-wrestling match between Kurt Herwald , chairman of U.S. FBO Stevens Aviation Inc. and his opposite number at Southwest Airlines , Herb Kelleher ( Pilot Notes , April ) took place at the Dallas Sportatorium in Dallas in March . |
| 28 | A MEETING of maritime minds took place at the BNFL Ramsden Dock Terminal in Barrow recently . |
| 29 | The blast took place at the Ulba metallurgic works , in a workshop producing beryllium for the Soviet nuclear industry . |
| 30 | No records remain as to who lived here through the seventeenth century , when during the Civil War a bloody battle took place on the Manor 's doorstep . |