Example sentences of "and placed [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period . |
| 2 | He rose from the sofa and placed himself in front of a picture . |
| 3 | I turned off the road when I drew level with the Brigadier and his Officers , and placed myself on the right of Mills Roberts as the Brigade swept past to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 4 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 5 | Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins . |
| 6 | They lifted her gently , as if she were an old lady , and placed her nearer the mouth of the cave . |
| 7 | And the old man arose and embraced his son and placed him above him at the table , saying , that he who had brought home that head should be the head of the house of Layn Calvo . |
| 8 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 9 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 10 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 11 | A taped message from Escobar had been printed in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo earlier in the month , saying that he would consider surrendering if the government ensured his safety and placed him in a prison in his home province of Antioquía . |
| 12 | When we arrived at the market town , my master hired the largest room in the public house , and placed me upon the table there . |
| 13 | Mrs Bannerji brought two new cups of tea and placed them beside Pakeezah Begum 's big , black bakelite telephone . |
| 14 | We healed them with our doctor 's hands and placed them about our person . |
| 15 | They stood to the side as I entered then the woman showed me to a chair as the man brought two glasses and placed them on the table in front of me , then said very seriously , ‘ This is my wife . |
| 16 | I then brought two sample-books and placed them on the counter for their perusal . |
| 17 | I understand he 's ill. , Seating herself on one of the wooden chairs , she drew off her fine kid gloves and placed them on the table . |
| 18 | They had removed their tall hats and placed them on their knees . |
| 19 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 20 | Mobuto folded the glasses and placed them on the coffee table in the centre of the room . |
| 21 | He picked her legs up one by one , and placed them on the two benches . |
| 22 | George whipped the trousers off the table and placed them on a hanger which he attached to a wooden creel . |
| 23 | She pulled her glasses from her pocket and placed them on the end of her nose . |
| 24 | The train stopped , doors slammed , a man further up the line lifted out two suitcases and placed them on the ground . |
| 25 | Kneeling beside her , he took her hands and placed them on his chest , tracing the graceful line of her arms with his fingers . |
| 26 | In December 1991 the local authority was granted emergency protection orders in respect of both boys and placed them with foster parents . |
| 27 | What is , however , a matter of concern is that within days of receiving and failing to reply to that letter , on 23 October 1991 , the local authority moved the children from the family friends with whom they had lived since 17 July 1991 and placed them with foster parents . |
| 28 | In a game similar to that devised for the radio show Desert Island Discs , we listed those who would get one bullet from a six-gun , and placed them in order of preference , much in the way the FBI listed the top wanted men in the USA . |
| 29 | It was in this role that he removed the relics of the Three Wise Men from Milan , and placed them in Cologne Cathedral , where they are still found to this day . |
| 30 | They then arranged these conforming schemes into three schedules , one for each design , and placed them in order of merit , which again they were specifically told not to do . |