Example sentences of "place [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 2 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 3 | Discrimination against people on the grounds of ‘ non-normal ’ bodies or intellectual capacity places them outside the mainstream of social life . |
| 4 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 5 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 6 | To ‘ freeze-dry ’ his wigs , David simply applies gel to the wigs and places them in the freezer for 30 minutes ! |
| 7 | Her husband Harold was a lamplighter and when he came home from work he was obliged to take off his boots in the passage and place them on a sheet of newspaper before entering the inner sanctum . |
| 8 | This can be done thus : take portions of a mature leaf and place them on a container of moist loam or sand and loam . |
| 9 | Always use the same set of scales and ideally place them on a piece of wood or chipboard for a more accurate reading . |
| 10 | The procedure is to remove some of the gut contents from ‘ affected fish and place them on a microscope slide . |
| 11 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 12 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 13 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 14 | They erm , what they do they drive these big Tugmasters now with these lorries so that they plant all these erm forty foot trailers with er with er erm with a container on and place them on the ship . |
| 15 | It would be possible to test a large sample of readers , who would read nine texts and place them on the network . |
| 16 | It is essential that we should do all that we can to take as many schools as possible out of local education authority control and place them under the control of governors and parents . |
| 17 | When pinning use needles , which are finer , and place them across the seam . |
| 18 | Once extradition has been granted , then officers will bring the two men back to this country and place them before the courts here . |
| 19 | Remove the yolks and place them in a dish with mayonnaise and onions and beat them with a fork . |
| 20 | Shake the cannellini beans dry , then place them in a bowl . |
| 21 | Scrape out the pips and use a melon baller or teaspoon to scoop out small ball of the melon flesh and place them in a bowl . |
| 22 | Place them in a bowl over a pan of simmering water . |
| 23 | Place them in a watch glass containing Hank 's solution and collect the eggs from large follicles by pricking with a sharp needle . |
| 24 | Remove the poussins from the oven , quarter , place them in a serving dish and cover them with foil to keep warm . |
| 25 | Spread the nachips with a thickish layer of refried beans and place them in a grill pan on a rack . |
| 26 | Using colouring , draw the face of each of the cards and place them in a fan on top of the cake . |
| 27 | Peel , halve and core them and place them in a saucepan … cover with the wine and a broken cinnamon stick and heat until barely simmering … wash the monkfish and pat dry with kitchen paper … just as the liquid begins to caramelise , add the lemon juice and stir vigorously … reduced to a quarter of its original volume … add the cubes one at a time … thread the piece of monkfish … reserving the liquid … baste the fruit continuously … intersperse with pears … hand the sauce separately … |
| 28 | Drain the beans and place them in a saucepan to cover with water . |
| 29 | I cut them in half , discarding the pointed end for the moment and place them in a seed tray or wooden tomato box on layers of newspaper , narrow ends uppermost . |
| 30 | Place them in the corners . |