Example sentences of "i 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 .
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