Example sentences of "[prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be the district office which covers the hospital which may not be the same office as for the place of residence . |
| 2 | A bank was built on the site , a much better class of neighbour for the place of prayer . |
| 3 | There his intense affection for the place , its people , its buildings and its surrounding countryside still shines clearly , although Thomas 's Oxford is grossly distorted for us today . |
| 4 | For various reasons , therefore , he moved to Jamaica and , although he returned to Barbados many times , it was never with any great enthusiasm for the place . |
| 5 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 6 | Possibly world war III was brewing up in Nicaragua — he mentioned that to North , though North doubted it , thought the Russians would never fight for the place — and here was he , O'Boyle , being told about the innermost strategic details . |
| 7 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 8 | He still retains an affection for the place , perhaps because it was there that he first encountered the inspiring sight of human beings at odds with , and frequently overcoming , an unpromising environment . |
| 9 | MOST of those who read Glenys Roberts 's moan ( March 15 ) and who know Monaco felt , I suspect , more sorrow for the author than disdain for the place . |
| 10 | Aspinall , who scored against Grimsby , is a contender , with Darryl Powell and possibly Steve Wigley , for the place vacated by the injured Mark Chamberlain . |
| 11 | His card message system gave him the freedom to go out alone and hail a taxi , showing the driver the appropriate card for the place he wanted to visit . |
| 12 | Celia Fiennes , in high disgust at finding ‘ froggs and slow-worms and snailes in my roome ’ when lodging in Ely , had the honesty to qualify her personal dislike for the place , which ‘ must needs be very unhealthy , tho' the natives say much to the contrary which proceeds from custom and use ’ . |
| 13 | Here was yet another aspect of Thrush Green to increase his growing affection for the place . |
| 14 | He entered the maze of streets and alleyways below Piazza Amedeo , looking for the place where he had seen the little beggar girl with the bandaged leg . |
| 15 | The story of a former pupil who becomes a master at the school ; his affection for the place survives ill-treatment , for after inheriting money , retiring , and marrying the ‘ wardrobe-woman ’ , he continues to take a kindly interest in the boys . |
| 16 | Take the words used for the place for eliminating : bathroom , convenience , lavatory , loo , toilet , water closet ( WC ) . |
| 17 | If you go on like this , you 'll soon be too big for the place . |
| 18 | NIREX will opt for the place where they are least likely to meet opposition . |
| 19 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 20 | Tamar 's enthusiasm for the place momentarily brightened up her face . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel for the place , ’ he says , ‘ and they need someone here to look after it . ’ |
| 22 | His feeling for the place underwent many changes . |
| 23 | They wrote out a cheque for the place there and then and became the owners of their own pub . |
| 24 | But in the absence of direct evidence for the place of manufacture , or at best the source of the raw materials , there has been a degree of reticence about interpreting the distribution of such goods . |
| 25 | Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night . |
| 26 | Bissett had only to see the wire of the Citadel 's perimeter , to see the smoke from the Citadel 's chimneys , to feel a loathing for the place . |
| 27 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 28 | The movement towards integration ( with its social , moral , philosophical and educational overtones ) was to be found in many countries and was part of an international concern for the place which the handicapped occupied in Western society . |
| 29 | If a coherent theory of literacy is to be developed , it will have to account for the place of written language , both in relation to the forms of spoken language and also in relation to the communicative functions served by different types of language in different social settings . |
| 30 | Yet the DSS was paying for the place and she could have shopped around if she had been provided with the help to do this . |