Example sentences of "[art] place [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The place between the worlds , where you feel the edges of them grind and shatter . |
| 2 | I dealt with the owner personally , and he has n't set foot in the place since the war . |
| 3 | There 's absolutely nothing wrong with the place up the road . |
| 4 | Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached . |
| 5 | As Plutarch says ( Aratos xvi ) of the Akrokorinth : ‘ it hinders and cuts off all the country south of the Isthmus from intercourse , transits , and the carrying on of military expeditions by land and sea , and makes him who controls the place with a garrison sole lord of Greece . ’ |
| 6 | He walked round the cold rooms and looked at the place with a stranger 's eyes . |
| 7 | THE CLASH : ‘ The Story Of The Clash ’ ( Columbia ) now they are top of the chart mountain , the last gang in town flood the place with an avalanche of Westway Rockin' rereleases — out on Monday |
| 8 | The office of Mayor in Darlington the whole shooting match , not just the place with the armchairs will cost poll tax payers an estimated £54,500 next year . |
| 9 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 10 | She went over the place with the country gent estate agent , who wore a check cap , cavalry twill trousers , had a limp handshake and permanently narrowed blue eyes . |
| 11 | Difficulties in managing school tasks : confusion of letters which are similar in shape ( o and a ) ; unexplained delay in reading ; short attention span in visual tasks ; marking the place with the finger continuously when reading ; reversing letters ; poor hand-eye co-ordination ; inability to copy work from blackboard . |
| 12 | She walked through the Bacon room again , avoiding the central figure , deciding to try the place with the barrels . |
| 13 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 14 | The '70s thing is all over the place at the moment , it 's when people of my generation were growing up , it 's people 's memories of classic pop imagery from their childhood . ’ |
| 15 | Halted at a red light , Robyn consults her A to Z , but before she has found the place on the map , the lights have changed and cars are hooting impatiently behind her . |
| 16 | It was a pleasing interlude in privileged lives to which the alien shabbiness of the town beyond the hotel gardens , and the very remoteness of the place on the edge of the civilized world , added a whiff of adventure and glamour . |
| 17 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |
| 18 | He said the council had put up a wire fence at the place on the cliff-path . |
| 19 | I returned the book to the place on the shelf where I had found it and walked quietly out of the room . |
| 20 | Peter , with a square of folded white linen , laundered by Anna among all the Rectory sheets and pillowcases , wiped the place on the chalice that her lips had touched , and moved on . |
| 21 | They had a there was a sort of electric burner in the place as a whole |
| 22 | The locals still used the place as a tip , and piles of old tyres and other junk lay about . |
| 23 | But old Hoggatt founded the place as a police lab , and when the chips are down that 's what it 's all about . |
| 24 | Both are chilling tales : blood and guts all over the place as a teenager pumps a shotgun at her school fellows in Monster , while in The Train a bunch of high school friends travelling from Chicago to San Francisco confess their guilty and vicious secrets before falling victim to savage revenge . |
| 25 | ‘ You should keep more pigs and run the place as a farm , ’ Simon said . |
| 26 | We must get in , do the job and get out as quickly as POSSIBLE — leaving the place as the public have a right to find it . |
| 27 | The mess was almost empty except for an Education Corps captain who was also using the place as an hotel , and three unmarried young officers who 'd been playing tennis and should n't have been in the ante-room dressed like that . |
| 28 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 29 | Beer line systems have a pressurised detergent solution vessel which takes the place of a keg and use the pumps and controls of the beer dispense equipment with a standing period . |
| 30 | Although the 1624 Act against letting an individual hold a monopoly meant that no businessman could take the place of a trading company , there was no reason why an individual should not hold a charter as a great landlord . |