Example sentences of "placed [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gently she placed them in the carrier bag . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | George washed up his cup and saucer carefully and placed them in the plastic drainer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Benjamin drew three gold coins from his purse and placed them in the centre of the table . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Sophia placed him in the middle of the cake which was covered with white icing forked up into ridges . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | The fungal affinity of these bizarre forms was not recognised until the 1850s , when Charles Robin and Camille Montagne described the genus Laboulbenia and placed it in the class Ascomycetes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks . |
| 16 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 17 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 18 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |
| 19 | He placed it in the box and that eventually returned itself to the ticket office . |
| 20 | Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm . |
| 21 | carefully folded the paper he folded the he carefully folded the paper and placed it in the desk on top of the blotter . |