Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 2 | I had read about the place in Scum magazine I felt all right in here : a circular , windowless room , tricked out in some lost pimp 's image of a paradisal arbour — tendoned vines , plastic grape-clutches , bamboo ceiling , lagoon lights and canned birdsong . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to fight for a place on a packed plane and , after much pleading , they finally knocked someone off their list . |
| 4 | And people do live in other parts of the area , and they need telephones — from what I 've seen of the place they 'll be about the main link with the outside world . |
| 5 | ‘ No , but I 've heard about the place , and I must say they sound as if they 're rather exciting , ’ Lucy said with a certain amount of truth . |
| 6 | I 've rung around the place for you . |
| 7 | And who has seen to the place since ? ’ |
| 8 | She had learned of the place from an encounter some years ago . |
| 9 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 10 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
| 11 | houses in them days , if you worked on a p work on a place , you had to live on a place , you see , if you got the sack you had to get out of 'em . |
| 12 | He continues to add that ‘ In the course of development the superego also takes on the influences of those who have stepped into the place of parents — Educators , teachers , people chosen as ideal models . ’ |
| 13 | As the puppy gets older , he will want to go outside to the soiled piece of paper that you have positioned in a place that you may want him to use . |
| 14 | For the sunshine you have brought to a place where I thought the sun would never shine any more . |
| 15 | When I was thirty , we did n't have the vote , we had to fight for a place in the world . |
| 16 | Many people have had experiences of déjà vu , when they have come across a place which they are able to describe in precise detail even though they know they have never been there before . |
| 17 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 18 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 19 | When nothing happened , and he realised that he had come to a place without facilities , he retired for another consultation . |
| 20 | He had come to the place where God was but had not encountered the ineffable reality itself . |
| 21 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |