Example sentences of "[prep] a place [Wh adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morning of the fourth day , with Men and People still in pursuit wherever he went , Creggan headed for a place where the food was where no Men were near . |
| 2 | Napoleon III had already found it useful as a place where a few quiet days might be spent with a friend . |
| 3 | It also provides a glimpse of Flanders as a place where a substantial number of fighters could be expensively equipped and then encouraged to leave the county for long periods . |
| 4 | My ‘ Jottings ’ will describe Italy as a place where the drama in the streets is never ending . |
| 5 | Well into the seventeenth century , the Alps were seen as a place where the only activity was shovelling snow from the 45° pastures . |
| 6 | Although the bar did n't strike Blake as a place where the customers would be called ‘ sir ’ he thought they recognized a gentleman . |
| 7 | The picture of Oxford between the wars as a place where the privileged few neglected their studies in favour of laid-back , often decadent lifestyles , will remain . |
| 8 | But what happens if a site gets known as a place where the troublemakers are likely to aim for ? |
| 9 | After a little more than a year , she alone had transformed it into a place where the children could play in safety , a stretch of patchy grass with a few well-cared-for roses round its border , and an immensely high wall skirting the garden from one end to the other . |
| 10 | ‘ Escape ’ was defined as ‘ escape from a place where the defendant has occupation or control over land to a place which is outside his occupation or control . ’ |
| 11 | These eagles would not know what a zoo was , or believe that he had escaped from one in a place where no eagles lived naturally . |
| 12 | Fire , should it occur in a place where a substantial number of people gather , i.e. a bar or a hotel , may have tragic consequences . |
| 13 | ‘ I have never lived in a place where the past was so alive , and my great predecessors seemed like daily companions . ’ |
| 14 | One difficulty remains in that a mining venture would still need to find a way through to the deposit in a place where the sedimentary layer is not too thick . |
| 15 | If we were all hay fever prone , then whenever we happened to be in a place where the pollen count was high , our eyes would start streaming and our noses running . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , Clare lay off the path in a place where the ground dipped , so she could not be seen . |
| 17 | He had put them in a place where the risk would be minimal and he had not pumped the gun the maximum number of times . |
| 18 | Insertions are quite simple in B-trees , every leaf corresponds to a place where a new insertion might happen , however deletions are slightly more complicated . |
| 19 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 20 | They went across the fields and came to a place where a few stones lay , giving no indication at all that they had once combined to form a dwelling for holy women . |
| 21 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 22 | One such Roman road led from Londinium westward , crossing the River Thames by a stone bridge — at a place now called Staines — to Exeter , and to a place where the Romans utilised the local waters for their baths , aptly called Bath . |
| 23 | They led the dogs to a place where the river meandered and the shingle bank was broad and deserted , and they beat them with sticks or stoned them . |
| 24 | And on they travelled through the forest until they came to a place where the roads crossed and there sat an old woman resting on a stone . |
| 25 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 26 | Ignoring the paladin 's complaints , Cleo kicked Contralto 's flanks to make him trot , and presently they came to a place where the path widened . |
| 27 | The boy led them up one of the dark streets to a place where the houses were tall and thin and so closely packed together that door followed immediately upon door . |
| 28 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 29 | Just then he stopped at a place where a dog had dug a hole in the ground . |
| 30 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |