Example sentences of "[verb] the place [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing had been disturbed here — although the air of desertion and my timid light lent the place a sinister aspect . |
| 2 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
| 3 | Burton started a Welsh male voice choir — ‘ although at one time there were only two Welshmen in the camp ’ — and at one stage , up at Docking in Norfolk , he seems to have done everything but declare the place an independent colony . |
| 4 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ Veronica replied , ‘ we can give the place a good airing before we go . ’ |
| 5 | It would give the place a bad name . ’ |
| 6 | They lend the place a certain cosmopolitan tone . |
| 7 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 8 | When she was a child Liza had called the place the Secret Cove . |
| 9 | The finance had been provided by one of his banks in co-operation with French and German organizations to give the place an international reputation . |
| 10 | There was no light except hard bars of sunlight shafting almost horizontally through the broken windows , and the concrete floor gave the place a gloomy chill even on that evening . |
| 11 | They gave the place a summery look , an ironic note considering the winter that cloaked them both . |
| 12 | That and the rain , which stained the concrete a dirty brown , gave the place a deserted look even during term-time , but the fact that it was so close to London meant that it really was deserted at the weekends as students and staff headed for the bright lights . |
| 13 | The lighting was from downward-angled spotlights on the roof grid that gave the place an odd , studio-like atmosphere . |
| 14 | It rained in downright earnest , and the noise of rain and wind on the roof , windows , and doors of the empty house gave the place an eerie feeling . |
| 15 | After about thirty years with a genuine French landlord who only sold beer in half-pints , among his other idiosyncrasies , the brewery bowed to public opinion and renamed the place the French Pub . |