Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prowls about the place , you know , on his own , and dreams of springing a dazzling surprise on the archaeological world some day . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | They had to be willing , too , to wait for a place to become available . |
| 4 | It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 6 | The acrid smell of smoke clung about the place , black smudges streaking the walls and the floor where a fire had burned itself out . |
| 7 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 8 | Hand will play three-times former champion Jeremy Bates or qualifier Mike Wyeth for a place in Sunday 's final . |
| 9 | Hamish gazed about the place . |
| 10 | Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre . |
| 11 | Swearing , grumbling , joking in loud voices , they heaved in a damp , excited mass , struggling for a place on each bus , as it drew up , already full . |
| 12 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 13 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 14 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 15 | so , and we were repressing , repression was pushing into the unconscious , so does the unconscious still exist as a place where we repress everything ? |
| 16 | The yard was squalid and run down , the lads slouched about the place resentfully , the tack was old and dirty with repair patches showing on almost every item of leather . |
| 17 | Again , we choose Oxford , but only because this is usually given as the place of publication for Oxford University Press books . |
| 18 | The biggest problem with the diabetic clinic is that time tends to be very limited and perhaps it is best regarded as a place for assessment and the identification of problems , with a little time for education . |
| 19 | In a short campaigning season curtailed by either seasonal or financial considerations , or by both , the advantage did not lie with the attacker who , if he began a siege , risked being caught between the place he was seeking to capture and ( a constant fear ) a force coming to relieve the besieged . |
| 20 | Room 4.17 has been nominated as the place for the delivery of nominations and withdrawals . |
| 21 | If they had to stay they moved about the place like shadows . |
| 22 | For a long time we have been thinking and praying about a place of our own . |
| 23 | To write about a place I did not know might seem to be breaking one of the most quoted warnings to the novice author : " Write about what you know " . |
| 24 | If you do opt for a place in the countryside however , be certain that no farm livestock is in the vicinity either , as sheep especially may prove an irresistible subject of curiosity for dogs which have not encountered them before , and this can escalate to sheep-worrying . |
| 25 | NIREX will opt for the place where they are least likely to meet opposition . |
| 26 | And he could even be challenging for a place in the return leg of Leeds ' European Cup first round tie against Stuttgart at Elland Road at the end of the month . |
| 27 | The Palm House in the Royal Botanic Gardens was built 1844–8 , and is one of the most startling pieces of Victorian architectural audacity , qualifying for a place in this book by virtue of its function and its pioneering construction . |
| 28 | Well erm made models with stones and other rubbish that we found about the place and a whole pile of had still standing . |
| 29 | It 's not too late to apply for details of this and other screenings , so if you would like to be considered for a place at the Academy , then please write |
| 30 | No application forms received after this date will be considered for a place in the Schools . |