Example sentences of "placed [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He placed me on the ground and saw at once that I could not fly . |
| 2 | When we arrived at the market town , my master hired the largest room in the public house , and placed me upon the table there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 5 | He placed them on the kitchen-dresser , then put away the milk , sugar and butter . |
| 6 | I then brought two sample-books and placed them on the counter for their perusal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As she placed them on the table , Roy spoke up . |
| 10 | Mobuto folded the glasses and placed them on the coffee table in the centre of the room . |
| 11 | As he caught them , he placed them on the counter in front of her , all in a row , all of them heads . |
| 12 | He picked her legs up one by one , and placed them on the two benches . |
| 13 | Self-consciously they took the tureens from the kitchens into the dining room , placed them on the trolley , and took it round an empty table . |
| 14 | She pulled her glasses from her pocket and placed them on the end of her nose . |
| 15 | The train stopped , doors slammed , a man further up the line lifted out two suitcases and placed them on the ground . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 18 | Indeed , the influence of women writers at the time was rising in many areas , as Fanny Burney 's Evelina ( 1778 ) and Hannah Cowley 's dramatic works placed them in the forefront of contemporary literature . |
| 19 | Gently she placed them in the carrier bag . |
| 20 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 21 | George washed up his cup and saucer carefully and placed them in the plastic drainer . |
| 22 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |
| 23 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 24 | She staggered over to the freezer , climbed on to a small stool by its side , unwrapped the packages to reveal frozen packs of my beefburgers , and placed them in the freezer , leaning over it until she was almost inside . |
| 25 | Eddy v Niman is open to the criticism that in the terms of s.3(1) there was an assumption of the rights of the owner when he took the goods from the shelf and placed them in the shopping trolley . |
| 26 | Sightless , seeing all , he placed them by the bones of his brother . |
| 27 | In addition , despite a disarmingly pleasant manner , Reagan was widely considered to harbour views that placed him outside the mainstream of American politics ; there was a possibility that he might tamper with social security or lead his country into war . |
| 28 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 29 | His comments inspired the students , but placed him on the list of suspicious intellectuals . |
| 30 | The Master of Ceremonies placed him near the Great Mogul and a plate of freshly grilled lamb was put before him . |