Example sentences of "[vb past] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Place in September 1846 he was too ill to receive them . |
| 2 | The term ‘ local state ’ gained critical acceptance and helped place on a new conceptual stage the mass of research and political activity that had gathered around local , or community , politics since the late 1960s. for those on the radical left , the state , and of course the local state , came to be seen as a site of competing political interests rather than as a neutral set of administrative institutions . |
| 3 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 4 | The Princess of Wales , we are told in today 's Daily Mirror , swapped place cards at a dinner to avoid sitting next to him . |
| 5 | Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for . |
| 6 | And today we talk to the Nottinghamshire based place name society . |
| 7 | You given place in Switzerland they think it 's quite |
| 8 | Family solicitor John Moir talking to the media after a hearing of Orkney Children 's Panel confirmed Place of Safety orders on the nine children . |
| 9 | Behind him he heard Place scrambling , then there was a shot . |
| 10 | After a period of silence from outside , a voice now hailed Place , told him to come out and give himself up . |
| 11 | Of particular concern is the pattern of abductions by armed men in plain clothes in security force style operations , most of which took place at night . |
| 12 | The same source reports that 190 executions took place last year . |
| 13 | These dreadful events took place in the south of Sri Lanka , which is dominated by the majority Sinhalese population . |
| 14 | Fry 's opening words are : ‘ Those artists among us whose formation took place before the war recognise Cézanne as their tribal deity , and their totem . ’ |
| 15 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 16 | Over the next fifty years , a significant change in policy took place . |
| 17 | It was during the period of 1943–1945 that his political awakening took place . |
| 18 | My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later . |
| 19 | Leonard 's circumcision took place , in accordance with Jewish law , on the morning of the eighth day after his birth ; several prayers of blessings being recited before the actual ceremony , at which Nathan his father offered the solemn prayer : |
| 20 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 21 | But perhaps the biggest thing in popular music took place in 1948 when the LP was introduced ; an innovation of immense importance for the industry and public alike , and not least for Leonard who set about acquiring an enviable collection . |
| 22 | The influence of its music was greatly enhanced by the technological advances which then took place : first in gramophones ; then in public broadcasting systems . |
| 23 | ( An interesting confluence also took place between the development of classical music , which by now had moved away from tonality by vastly enlarging its range , and the coloured musicians ' microtonality . ) |
| 24 | Let Us Compare Mythologies was published in May 1956 ; the war took place later that summer ! ) |
| 25 | Another event took place at Birdland , a jazz-club in the centre of Montreal , where Leonard gave poetry readings after midnight , frequently to the accompaniment of his own guitar on which he improvised appropriate backings , though often in company with more experienced jazz musicians . |
| 26 | ‘ Already last night , ’ said a reporter , ‘ commuters were laying flowers beside the track where the crash took place . ’ |
| 27 | But you are cautiously optimistic because of the constructive atmosphere in which the talks took place . |
| 28 | We have no way of knowing exactly when these experiences took place . |
| 29 | few Review Board hearings took place within the statutory six weeks ; |
| 30 | Another change which took place with the anticipated increase in continental traffic in mind was the merger of Railfreight Distribution with the former BRB subsidiary Freightliners Ltd in 1988 . |