Example sentences of "[noun sg] and place it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pat poured the doctor out a cup of tea and placed it on the bedside table . |
| 5 | Celia arrived with a tray of tea and placed it on the table . |
| 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 . |
| 7 | I took off the stupid visor and placed it behind the conifer . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , then — ’ Alice walked across the kitchen to the open fireplace and , bending towards the oven at the side of it , she opened the door and took out a casserole dish and placed it on the table before she went on , ‘ If that 's how you 're feeling I think it 's about time you got yourself married . ’ |
| 9 | After a minute , she wrote out the check and placed it on the table . |
| 10 | He picked up a toy and placed it with the others on the pile . |
| 11 | McCann stood to the side until Reginald had left the room ; he then put the chairs back in place , puffed up the feather cushions on the chesterfield , rearranged the small tables , swept the ash from around the hearth , brought a straight iron fireguard and placed it before the fire . |
| 12 | The pimp took the strip and placed it over the other girl 's mouth . |
| 13 | The leader then calls for items , and the first person from one of the teams brings the article and places it on the chair . |
| 14 | ‘ Please , I insist , ’ Bernard said then took a five-dollar note from his wallet and placed it on the counter . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the severing of the head and placing it in the font which is so brutal , is n't it ? |
| 16 | Once they were back in the billet Charlie folded up his best suit and placed it under the bed next to the one Tommy had settled on , then swaggered around the room in his new uniform . |
| 17 | Going to the sink she filled the kettle with water and placed it on the gas . |
| 18 | If you or I were to mix mud and water and place it in the same position it would fall off . |
| 19 | Myles blew out the lamp and placed it on the sideboard . |
| 20 | carefully folded the paper he folded the he carefully folded the paper and placed it in the desk on top of the blotter . |
| 21 | Madge Grimsilk took a small hand torch from her bag , pressed the button and placed it behind the forest at one side . |
| 22 | Picking up rubbish and placing it in the bin is one small step in an ever-growing waste crisis . |
| 23 | Belatedly she took the figurine from her shoulder-bag and placed it on the table that stood between them . |
| 24 | She lifted his hand from her leg and placed it on the steering-wheel , surprised that he showed no resistance . |
| 25 | ‘ There , ’ she said , taking a jar from the sideboard and placing it on the table . |
| 26 | She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 27 | She carried the censer carefully over to the bed and placed it on the floor . |
| 28 | The literary text may negotiate with its containment ( as Shakespeare 's do ) , but its contemporary subversive force has been compromised by the political dominance of state power which excludes it from the centre and places it on the margins of socially sanctioned institutions . |
| 29 | A bigger pad over the top , there 's the sling and towards your casualty and place it on the body down the straight and the elbow and the point at the same side , tuck this hand under and tuck all this underneath the arm and bring the rest of it round the back , tie it up as close to the fingers as you can and try to remember how to do a reef knot , at least always make sure it 's firm , is that alright for you ? |
| 30 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |