Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 2 | ‘ I suspected there had been an intruder so I made Mrs. Bonnard wait in the car while I came in to check the place out . |
| 3 | I do n't like the place of the wicket or the shape of the park . |
| 4 | I do n't like the place . |
| 5 | ‘ No , let me — if I do n't clean the place up there 'll be a hue and cry . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know the place . |
| 7 | I think both have a place in the world , but I see Metropolitan Area technology used for connecting different types of data network , with Asynchronous Transfer Mode for internetworking of broadband networks . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was sure that I did not have a place in either male or female worlds , ’ she told me . |
| 9 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 10 | after Easter cos I got people have most go in work experience and I did n't get a place after Easter like . |
| 11 | Also , although I did n't know the place , I suspected that most of the low-lying shore would dry out , and I wanted to go there on the flood . |
| 12 | Well because I had n't got the place to keep things , that 's why . |
| 13 | ‘ I have to admit I do n't want to sell up , not at once , anyway , when I 've just found the place . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never known a place where ye get so much wine . ’ |
| 15 | I 've never known a place like it ! |
| 16 | ‘ As though someone had just scrubbed the place out . |
| 17 | I have not named the place where he is to be found , since I do not know it , and a week hence it may be very far from where he bides today . |
| 18 | The Alternatives , consists of images which did not secure a place in the Ninth Awards Book and Exhibition . |
| 19 | Mother Francis often sat there herself when she came up to tidy the place . |
| 20 | The project is concerned with examining the effects of a major geographical move on the individual in terms of psychological state , health , and efficiency , with specific emphasis on students who leave home to take a place at either university or boarding school . |
| 21 | And if you 're so sure you did n't leave the place unlocked — I mean , somebody 's responsible for this little lot , are n't they ? ’ |
| 22 | If you do n't want the place , that 's fine by me . |
| 23 | ‘ Then you do n't know the place as well as you think you do . ’ |
| 24 | She came in without so much as a ‘ by your leave ’ or a ‘ with your leave ’ … she pushed her nose into corners , and if she did n't say the place was dirty you could see what she thought right enough . |
| 25 | there 's one chap there erm no he did n't say it is , er Adams , I said to him you got , you have n't got a place in Chester , that 's another Adams , no , no he said there 's no Chester , the stuff he had in one , he had a , an oak settle , sixteen something , now there 's wood worm in that |
| 26 | We drift around looking the place over for accommodation , eventually selecting a wooden building called Sand Dune Apartments . |
| 27 | They 'd almost reached the place where the party was , but she told the driver to keep going . |
| 28 | Together to-day , taking disaster by the throat and turning it into victory , they have surely earned a place of honour that will be secure as long as men talk , or read or think of horses . |
| 29 | Nor are women prominent in senior positions in the professions although they have long had a place there in those areas concerned with women 's affairs which are most clearly associated with their assumed ‘ natural ’ role of caring for and serving others . |
| 30 | ‘ I left the bloody old gate open and he came in to check the place . ’ |