Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 2 | I thought Mrs Kettering must have an old father who wrote somewhere about the place . ’ |
| 3 | Except in a reference to the composition of Sweeney Agonistes , he wrote little about the place of alcohol , or any other narcotic , in literary creation . |
| 4 | I read up a little about the place . ’ |
| 5 | Her flatmates Mandy and Debby flitted fanciably about the place , half-dressed , serving me coffee with the reverence due to a moneyman and debt-settler . |
| 6 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 7 | He passed the rope through the now open apertures , down into the place where those toffee-brown overcoats had once hung and above them the brown felt hats with their Cambridge-blue ribbons . |
| 8 | The chief superintendent had a corner office with a view down onto the place where tenders took on loads of aviation fuel from huge land-based tanks . |
| 9 | Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps it is just far enough from the place where she was killed , to divert our attention . ’ |
| 11 | It will be all round the place in no time . ’ |
| 12 | But besides that , we 've collected half a dozen more , various but his , from all round the place . |
| 13 | He might sit it out ten minutes just to annoy , but not the time it took him to fidget all round the place as he seems to have done . |
| 14 | As well as that there were Leeds fans everyf*ckinwhere , all round the place it seemed . |
| 15 | And I 've been all round the place . |
| 16 | He used to find them all round the place ! |
| 17 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 18 | In the vital chapter ‘ The Shadow of the Past ’ Gandalf says a great deal about it , but his information boils down to three basic data : ( 1 ) the Ring is immensely powerful , in right or wrong hands ; ( 2 ) it is dangerous and ultimately fatal to all its possessors — in a sense there are no right hands ; ( 3 ) it can not simply be left unused or put aside , but must be destroyed , something which can happen only in the place of its origin , Orodruin , Mount Doom . |
| 19 | Two kingdoms come together in the place … nothing can keep them apart … black birds roosting in the turret … sing Come and play come and play some body up here want play with you … |
| 20 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 21 | Miranda lay half asleep on a sofa in front of her sitting-room window , which looked down on the Place de la République ; from there , the road led to the distant perfume factory which Miranda wanted to buy . |
| 22 | I know I do I forgot to take one down to the place with me I checked the then that , now we go |
| 23 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 24 | Then people rolling around all over the place . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 26 | All over the place , not only at the fête , a psychic infection rages and erupts in small ugly-comic jests — ‘ They put a dead cat in my trunk ’ — but also in affronts to the human self as massive and immemorial as those Homer describes . |
| 27 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 28 | Of course , the well-groomed head of modern Bruges pops up all over the place to remind you that this is not really a medieval theme park at all . |
| 29 | I hit it all over the place . |
| 30 | Commandos were digging in all over the place . |