Example sentences of "[prep] place with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you believe that Halloween has any kind of place with the devil or not ? |
| 2 | Rory tried to sneak a surreptitious glance at Adam 's wristwatch — she was n't wearing her own since it would have looked totally out of place with the slinky black number she was wearing — only to have her eyes riveted on his hands . |
| 3 | And so the words turned back on themselves , phrases reappeared , seeming to confirm other phrases , merely repeating themselves , clicking into place with a semblance of logic which nicely disguised the truth that all these words were nothing but a glittering fabric which hovered above the ground , unwinding endlessly , slipping between the fingers , beguiling like a mirage , taking on whatever shape the conjuror wanted , and leading nowhere . |
| 4 | So keen was he on the results — secured into place with a handful of mousse ( a completely new and highly intriguing concept to Yurk ! ) that he agreed to let Tony & Guy 's team work on the colour , later in the week . |
| 5 | Now the reverse gear was selected , urged into place with a slight rocking motion and the car travelled backwards before hesitantly coming to rest . |
| 6 | Tap the ferrules into place with a pin hammer and mount the pickup into the new bridge . |
| 7 | Before perming , hair is prepared with a deep cleansing shampoo and curls are locked into place with a postperm treatment . |
| 8 | Push the pipe into place with a slight twisting motion . |
| 9 | Slipping for years , pointed out tactfully by our friends and neighbours , pushed back into place with the bamboo boathook , they had chosen that day to fall . |
| 10 | ‘ While the visible signs of recession remain , there must be cause for hope that at last a framework for recovery is falling into place with the worst of the recession behind us , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Tap into place with the handle of a club hammer |
| 12 | One additional piece of the puzzle falls into place with the new ice-core timescale . |
| 13 | The pieces of evidence fell into place with the unequivocal precision of a well-made jigsaw puzzle . |
| 14 | A KEY piece in BNFL 's reprocessing strategy jigsaw has dropped into place with the completion of construction of Sellafield 's second Encapsulation Plant . |
| 15 | This distinction falls beautifully into place with the view of syntax which we sketched in Chapter 1 , but before explaining precisely how the two sorts of qualification work let us consider some more data from English . |
| 16 | While she hovered on the threshold , patting her wispy hair into place with an agitated hand and looking distractedly at her reflection in ‘ The Light of the World ’ , a breathless child hurried into the lobby , calling her name . |
| 17 | Hold it in place with a rubber band . |
| 18 | He never wore his turban at home , which always gave Hoomey a jolt of surprise , seeing the knee-length black hair coiled on top of his head , skewered in place with a comb . |
| 19 | Then she took the willow twig , laid it across the bull 's withers and secured it in place with a rope tied firmly beneath the soft folds of flesh on the underside of the neck . |
| 20 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 21 | Fix the stencil in place with a spray adhesive , such as SprayMount , and use very little paint ( the brush should be almost dry ) for the best results . |
| 22 | It 's pretty self-explanatory , really : a moulded plastic thingy that you wedge under the carrying handle of your combo , securing it in place with a velcro strap . |
| 23 | The saddle screws can be held in place with a tiny dab of superglue applied with a pin — do n't worry , the glue will not fix them permanently . |
| 24 | She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun . |
| 25 | Hold it in place with a longer spirit level ( if you have one ) to check it for horizontal . |
| 26 | Those two examples , both with shrouds , are little more than three-dimensional renditions of the monumental brass type , the shrouds held in place with a top-knot , the opposite end hanging *eely behind the feet . |
| 27 | Most have a metallic finish , and are bonded in place with a special primer . |
| 28 | To transform Rob into a sexy Jason Priestly look-alike hair was dried back from the face and held in place with a light application of Cossack Hairspray ( £1.76 ) . |
| 29 | Smooth and press in place with a wet finger . |
| 30 | With unbacked hessian , you place a length of hessian onto a pasted wall , then gently press each strip in place with a roller . |