Example sentences of "and place [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook two cigarettes from a paper packet , lit them , and placed one gently between her lips . |
| 2 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
| 3 | When he had finished reading he carefully folded it and placed it on top of the blotter . |
| 4 | 3 The defender moves back and places her arms in a cocked position . |
| 5 | His abolition of the subject carries with it the demise of the individual as the locus of knowledge and agency , and places him in a position where , as we saw , there can be no question of compromise with individualism . |
| 6 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 7 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 8 | The child finds the same letters on the eight cubes and places them correctly in the tray underneath the card . |
| 9 | To ‘ freeze-dry ’ his wigs , David simply applies gel to the wigs and places them in the freezer for 30 minutes ! |
| 10 | Reproducing his own handwriting , Bernard Faucon makes large words of wood placed alongside each other then coats the sentences with a reflecting substance and places them in landscapes , from the island of Elba to Vietnam . |
| 11 | Pfrommer dates the groups of objects and places them in their cultural and archaeological context . |
| 12 | It does this by a process called dithering which takes two or more colours from the 16 or 256 colour palette available and places them side by side to give the impression of another colour . |
| 13 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 14 | And places your mum does n't want to take me either . |
| 15 | He holds his hands passively forwards , and places his head on the carer 's shoulder , on the side away from the chair . |
| 16 | He leaves the window where he was standing , walks across to Eva and places his hand on her arm . |
| 17 | Bob Hodson phones the Wilton sales office on a Thursday and places his order for the following week . |
| 18 | ‘ My assistant 's prepared a list of people to see and places you should visit . ’ |
| 19 | If you are a real expert , you can see good birds on our reserves and know that we are working hard to protect the birds you watch and places you like to visit . |
| 20 | As a final gesture , Tamino removes the hard-won Symbol of the Sun from his own neck and places it round Pamina 's : ‘ It 's a breakthrough — a new order breaking the mould of the past . ’ |
| 21 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 22 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 23 | The children sit around the room , while the person who is chosen to start takes a cushion and places it on someone 's lap . |
| 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 | Nein says Herta as she takes my hand and places it , for an angry moment , between her thighs . |
| 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 | The student lifts his leg into the air and places it on his partner 's shoulder . |
| 28 | We are standing in that kitchen where I 've shared her meals and laughter , and she finishes drying the glass and places it carefully on the table . |
| 29 | The literary text may negotiate with its containment ( as Shakespeare 's do ) , but its contemporary subversive force has been compromised by the political dominance of state power which excludes it from the centre and places it on the margins of socially sanctioned institutions . |
| 30 | The victim-to-be purchases , or is given , the W.N.B. and places it unsuspectingly in the top pocket of his or her jacket , with the humorous head protruding . |