Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the place [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Take the words used for the place for eliminating : bathroom , convenience , lavatory , loo , toilet , water closet ( WC ) .
2 Thus , just as place deixis encodes spatial locations on coordinates anchored to the place of utterance , so time deixis encodes times on co-ordinates anchored to the time of utterance .
3 Today college friends congregated at the place in Lower High Street where Murray was attacked .
4 Replacive minerals grow in the place of earlier mineral phases .
5 The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves , starlings blew about the place like avian litter .
6 When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists .
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