Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They still include many high flyers ; but Mr Cormack shows that an appreciable number are now likely to be modest attainers who were crowded out of a place at home . |
| 3 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 4 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a sub-heading ‘ Knickers ’ and it says ‘ Passengers complained her green knickers were flying all over the place . ’ |
| 6 | They were running all over the place . |
| 7 | Patriots were running all over the place , periwigs ablaze , screaming for help , burrowing into the sand and rolling . |
| 8 | You were floundering all over the place , if I remember , ’ said Waldorf . |
| 9 | were jumping all over the place and the action moved |
| 10 | Suddenly Graham realised — with a small , disquieting feeling in his stomach — that they were standing right outside a place which always made him feel apprehensive . |
| 11 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |