Example sentences of "place [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | To ‘ freeze-dry ’ his wigs , David simply applies gel to the wigs and places them in the freezer for 30 minutes ! |
| 6 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It would be possible to test a large sample of readers , who would read nine texts and place them on the network . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When pinning use needles , which are finer , and place them across the seam . |
| 13 | They have , therefore , fewer cultural resources with which to resist the forces that place them in the underclass . |
| 14 | If this is not practical , you could try cooking a chicken to eat cold over several days ; but once it is cooked , divide it up into the meal portions you require , and place them in the freezer or refrigerator as appropriate . |
| 15 | You attach your receipt to the cash voucher and place them in the cash box . |
| 16 | Brush one edge of the strips with a dampened brush and carefully place them against the cake so that they are supported by the cocktail sticks . |
| 17 | Then saddle ye my horse Bavieca , and arm him well ; and ye shall apparel my body full seemlily , and place me upon the horse , and fasten and tie me thereon so that it can not fall : and fasten my sword Tizona in my hand . |
| 18 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 19 | Place him on the bed . ’ |
| 20 | If , now , we place him in the pantheon of Afro-Asian leaders who decisively influenced the course of events it is because he was a survivor , to whom the drama of revolutionary struggle was an end in itself . |
| 21 | There does , however , appear to be some confusion among various commentators as to Bukharin 's basic position : some , such as Itoh , place him in the underconsumptionist school , while others place him — correctly — in the disproportionality school ; but the latter , e.g. Sweezy , Mandel , Day , do not always attribute the same meaning to this . |
| 22 | If your child is unconscious , place him in the recovery position ( see page 82 ) . |
| 23 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 24 | The leader then calls for items , and the first person from one of the teams brings the article and places it on the chair . |
| 25 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 26 | It provides also for management of resources outside the EEZs , both high-seas fish stocks and the resources of the sea bed ; the latter it declares to be ‘ the common heritage of mankind ’ and places it under the control of an International Sea-bed Authority . |
| 27 | This book focuses upon 1985 , a mid-way point in the Thatcher years , but places it in the context of the changing reporting which we have studied in the years 1951 , 1961 , 1971 , 1978 as well as 1985 . |
| 28 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 29 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |
| 30 | The object is for players , taking it in turns , to remove one of the pieces and place it on the top without the whole structure collapsing . |