Example sentences of "placed [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy .
2 Mr. Novak placed them in a 35 gallon tank containing three large Echinodorus Sword plants and a great deal of driftwood .
3 At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water .
4 Once again I scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub .
5 But his drawings were remarkable for their acuteness of observation and their complete lack of sentimentality , qualities that placed them in a different league .
6 He placed them in a neat pile , patting them into position with his large hands , frowning slightly .
7 She placed them in a casserole dish and then shouted for Piers to come inside and eat .
8 In fact the defendants did not consider the transparencies suitable for their project and placed them in a drawer , together with the unread terms , and forgot about them .
9 She took out a bundle of £10 notes each time and placed them in an envelope from her bag .
10 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 .
11 Gently she placed them in the carrier bag .
12 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 .
13 George washed up his cup and saucer carefully and placed them in the plastic drainer .
14 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 .
15 Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Command of the Army of Africa placed him in a decisive position once the initial impetus of the rising in peninsular Spain was lost .
19 His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City .
20 However he was so dirty from his ride that the Master of Ceremonies placed him in a distant corner , far from the Emperor , and at the end of the queue for food .
21 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 .
22 On the contrary , his direct line to Hitler and Mussolini placed him in a better position than the monarchists to deal with Axis pressure .
23 It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class .
24 " 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 .
25 Sophia placed him in the middle of the cake which was covered with white icing forked up into ridges .
26 Partly in order to show the world ( and , perhaps , reassure himself ) that " his destiny and that of Spain [ were ] consubstantial and that God [ had ] placed him in the position which he [ occupied ] for great things " .
27 The same social worker eventually , quite inappropriately , arranged Part 3 accommodation for Mrs X and they placed her in a residential old people 's home .
28 Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred .
29 There were significant differences , for the factory system not only took child labour outside of the home , it placed it in an inferior overall environment .
30 Mr Torughu promptly placed it in an envelope with his official report and sent it to UEFA .
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