Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prowls about the place , you know , on his own , and dreams of springing a dazzling surprise on the archaeological world some day . |
| 2 | ‘ No , but I 've heard about the place , and I must say they sound as if they 're rather exciting , ’ Lucy said with a certain amount of truth . |
| 3 | The acrid smell of smoke clung about the place , black smudges streaking the walls and the floor where a fire had burned itself out . |
| 4 | Hamish gazed about the place . |
| 5 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 6 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 7 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 8 | The yard was squalid and run down , the lads slouched about the place resentfully , the tack was old and dirty with repair patches showing on almost every item of leather . |
| 9 | Again , we choose Oxford , but only because this is usually given as the place of publication for Oxford University Press books . |
| 10 | In a short campaigning season curtailed by either seasonal or financial considerations , or by both , the advantage did not lie with the attacker who , if he began a siege , risked being caught between the place he was seeking to capture and ( a constant fear ) a force coming to relieve the besieged . |
| 11 | Room 4.17 has been nominated as the place for the delivery of nominations and withdrawals . |
| 12 | If they had to stay they moved about the place like shadows . |
| 13 | NIREX will opt for the place where they are least likely to meet opposition . |
| 14 | Well erm made models with stones and other rubbish that we found about the place and a whole pile of had still standing . |
| 15 | Actually , he , he knows that Paul the bloke who looks after the place he goes to St. Andrews . |
| 16 | It 's easy to see why many people say of the place ‘ Once seen never forgotten ’ . |
| 17 | Only they were men , scattering , seeking cover as they moved towards the place where he was hiding . |
| 18 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 19 | It did n't help to admit that , but for her own stupidity , she would never have come near the place . |
| 20 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 21 | Replacive minerals grow in the place of earlier mineral phases . |
| 22 | Among the grand Paris hotels , the Ritz has one incomparable advantage ; it is located in the Place Vendôme , and the Place Vendôme is adjacent to the most tempting shopping-street in the world , the rue du Faubourg St-Honoré . |
| 23 | Second , it is God himself who not only speaks but also hears that ‘ No ’ in the person of the one man who does not deserve to hear it , the righteous one who stands in the place of the unrighteous . |
| 24 | Most of the time , she seems to be asleep — that 's when she 's walking round the place . ’ |
| 25 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 26 | A calm emanated from the place , moving down through his torso and out to his fingertips . |
| 27 | Such an expectation would be unreasonable with container ships or with general cargo vessels , where hundreds of bills of lading may have to be issued , and the issuance of final documentation is often possible only after the vessel has departed from the place of shipment . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 'm going to wander round the place , see if there 's anything on . |
| 29 | It was the custom for men to come to the place only by invitation . |
| 30 | His soul would have no repose and would hover over the place , flying through the night . |