Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And who has seen to the place since ? ’ |
| 3 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 4 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 5 | Yeah I ai n't , I ai n't done any work here rea really since , you know done up the place . |
| 6 | It did n't help to admit that , but for her own stupidity , she would never have come near the place . |
| 7 | Aunt Tossie must have gone to the Place , or the bathroom . |
| 8 | Here we were in a restaurant where books on croquet lay scattered around the place . |
| 9 | Klein is not the only psychoanalyst to have commented upon the place of material objects in play . |
| 10 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 11 | Tom had referred to the place as ‘ George 's smoking room . |
| 12 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | He had come to the place where God was but had not encountered the ineffable reality itself . |
| 15 | I 've rung around the place for you . |
| 16 | And people do live in other parts of the area , and they need telephones — from what I 've seen of the place they 'll be about the main link with the outside world . |
| 17 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 18 | Too much money had gone into the place for that , now . |
| 19 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |
| 20 | She had learned of the place from an encounter some years ago . |
| 21 | I had read about the place in Scum magazine I felt all right in here : a circular , windowless room , tricked out in some lost pimp 's image of a paradisal arbour — tendoned vines , plastic grape-clutches , bamboo ceiling , lagoon lights and canned birdsong . |
| 22 | He continues to add that ‘ In the course of development the superego also takes on the influences of those who have stepped into the place of parents — Educators , teachers , people chosen as ideal models . ’ |