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

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No	Sentence
1	‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said .
2	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 .
3	None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage .
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs .
7	A violent , ruthless man ( released from Prison early ) gained control of a section and placed it at loggerheads with another section .
8	They placed it at 7,000 in early 1977 and were far from happy at the knowledge .
9	Each girl lit a candle and placed it at the altar , symbolic of the light of Christ which burns throughout the world .
10	He placed it at Robbie 's feet and sat , head on one side , as if saying , ‘ Well now , what about that ? ’
11	Finally he stood and placed it at the head of the mound .
12	Serving and former guardsmen stood to attention as Princess Diana , dressed in black , took the wreath from two old soldiers and placed it at the foot of the memorial in Horseguards Parade .

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