Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] the place " in BNC.

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1 As a child the continuous moves had taught Eva to leave behind the place they had been and give herself to the new .
2 Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London .
3 he continued , suddenly grinning at the tall old man as they walked between the levels of stoves and cookers and fires , Scullions ran about the place , carrying brooms and buckets and baskets full of hidden ingredients .
4 Hamish gazed about the place .
5 Mr Thomas Sumison , the master mason from Colerne who almost certainly built it , was a genius , for Swangrove belongs to the place .
6 ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests .
7 Doctor Teesdale pointed to the place where the ghost had stood .
8 What use were services that recalled the Crucifixion when there was Timothy Gedge wandering about the place , a far better reminder of waste and destruction ?
9 Atkinson , Ferguson 's predecessor at Old Trafford returns to the place where his United side were usually thereabouts — but never there .
10 The wall faded rapidly , leaving Lacuna staring at the place where the next stone had been about to appear .
11 Because that 's the description Thomas Johnson gave of the place when he came here in 1639 , and this was the self-same weather he experienced , and here 's the point .
12 Tuppe glanced about the place .
13 Miss Danziger waited at the place known as Lakeside at St Lund , where small craft poached alongside the road .
14 Dreamer crouched above the place where his father had lost his youngest son .
15 In the hope that Willsford adapts to the place , I take him to come home first , ahead of Cool Ground , Brown Windsor and Stay On Tracks .
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