Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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1 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
2 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
3 | But even when there were teams of twenty or thirty workmen ‘ tripping over each other ’ , as Laura told a friend , with beds scattered all over the place and no curtains , ‘ it still has a very romantic atmosphere ’ . |
4 | It just lifted the roofing from the base of the stack and hen houses just scattered all over the place . |
5 | And there 's this thing scattered all over the place |
6 | But the furniture is made all over the place although 's our best maker and he 's up in Scotland . |
7 | We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me . |
8 | Have you ever seen the erm tag idea written all over the place ? |
9 | Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had ! |
10 | However nicknames today are used mostly in the place of christian names and the hey-day of this use in Halling was probably during the period of the late 19th century and the early 20th century . |
11 | The field they were in had British as well as German mines sown all over the place . |
12 | To prevent putrefaction the soft organs were removed via an incision in the trunk , and then buried either at the place of death or separately with the body . |
13 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
14 | Were the church fathers right , he wondered , when they claimed that the soul of a suicide was bound eternally to the place where he died ? |
15 | There are important questions that should not be brushed aside about the place of altruism in policy making . |
16 | ‘ If Elinor is unable to live in Saracen , the trustees might consider it an unjustifiable expense : apart from the income that might be generated by the capital that 's tied up in the place , keeping five full-time domestic staff members and three secretaries would no longer be viable . |
17 | It is pointed out as the place where the warriors were buried . |
18 | But it does n't mean to say that you are sending somebody who says he 's a Conservative , going to support a Conservative government , and the moment he gets there is to be found all over the place . |
19 | Foxe describes his last moments : ‘ He was brought forth to the place of execution , was there tied to the stake , and then strangled by the hangman , and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning at the town of Vilvorde , AD 1536 ; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal and a loud voice : ‘ Lord , open the King of England 's eyes ’ . ’ |
20 | Few anthropologists have focused specifically upon the place of the object in social reproduction . |
21 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
22 | ‘ Why somebody 's left an 'ole choc-ice on the floor , and it 's run all over the place . |
23 | Unaffected adventurers can help their friends to leave the Tower , but affected characters will have to be manhandled out of the place . |
24 | Her only pleasure in it now was the notes left all over the place by her father : cheery instructions in a classical scholar 's hand , written on the gummed labels used by the more pious English government departments to get a second use out of old envelopes . |
25 | ‘ I 'm getting a little tired , ’ she added tetchily , ‘ of being shunted all over the place looking for your wretched cousin . ’ |
26 | Taken all over the place . |
27 | Not , well this one specifically this but er I mean there 's tapes being taken all over the place . |
28 | That road must have passed close to the place now called Chiswick , but keeping well north of the river swamps , probably along the northern boundary of the area which subsequently became known as Turnham Green . |
29 | I 've put up with the place for nearly twenty years . ’ |
30 | All at once in the ante-rooms of the palace were sources of people who had not been seen or allowed anywhere near the place in recent years . |