Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | This title was Kay 's own suggestion since in due course the Society would need to consider filling the place sadly empty since Molly 's death . |
| 2 | Maggie herself , he knew , understood the situation well enough : there was no one more sensible than Maggie ; but her auntie , who seemed to have taken the place of her mother and , like a mother , had her future interests at heart , was always bringing her qualities to the fore for him to admire . |
| 3 | Petrol bombs were used to try to set the place alight . |
| 4 | Germans were billeted here , but they seem to have treated the place with considerably more decency than they did the people . ’ |
| 5 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 6 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
| 7 | Like everyone , Eric will have to fight to get a place in our side . |
| 8 | ‘ Possessiveness seems to have taken the place of affection with them . |
| 9 | Without water-power we could never have afforded to heat the place . |
| 10 | If you do manage to find a place in one , you must tidy it up when you 're ready to leave and remember to take your litter with you . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , as Russia 's economy burns , inflation now a hairsbreadth from the banana republic variety , its leaders fiddle with its future — locked in a political power struggle which would now seem to have taken the place of anything resembling coherent government . |
| 12 | But in fact what takes place this April could well mark the beginning of a whole new era or cycle for you , as once the Sun has entered Taurus on the 20th you will come to realise that what others are determined to acquire has no place in your long-term scheme . |
| 13 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 14 | Tom thunders , ‘ Who the hell are you ? ’ , and I try to tell him I 'm Albert Fyles and I 've come to take the place of his regular caddie . |
| 15 | However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother . |
| 16 | It was an important vehicle of terror in the Stalinist period and , by the time of Stalin 's death , had come to occupy a place in the state machinery which in some ways undermined the position of the Communist Party itself ; everyone came under suspicion . |
| 17 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 18 | In his farewell speech he announced that he and his wife would be remaining in the capital city as they had grown to love the place and its people . |
| 19 | but you 've got to find the place there it could be at the other end a mile away could n't it ? |
| 20 | She had gone to find a place where she might age more rapidly . |
| 21 | Oh , oh I feel very satisfied I 've managed to clean the place |
| 22 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 23 | Cheltenham Dairies have offered to keep a place open for Adrian , if he changes his mind . |
| 24 | Cheltenham Dairies have offered to keep a place open for Adrian , if he changes his mind . |