Example sentences of "placed [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social engineering which placed them in positions of powerlessness ensured that the only female voice readily heard was that of the shrill tones of the satirised scold — a literary stereotype . |
| 2 | Juliet fished the boiled eggs from the saucepan and placed them in eggcups . |
| 3 | Nor did Hincmar say more about a king 's daughters : in Charlemagne 's later years , the political influence of his womenfolk ( mistresses as well as daughters ) at court had been notorious , but his successors had either used their daughters in marriage-alliances , or , more often , placed them in convents , either way removing them from the political centre . |
| 4 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 5 | A violent , ruthless man ( released from Prison early ) gained control of a section and placed it at loggerheads with another section . |
| 6 | He had built this out on the steps of the church and placed it on trestles before the rood screen . |