Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] place [pron] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage .
2 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 .
3 She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs .
4 A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried .
5 A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation .
6 Each girl lit a candle and placed it at the altar , symbolic of the light of Christ which burns throughout the world .
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