Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] place " in BNC.

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1 For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits .
2 ‘ Well do n't I know just the place we 'll be made as welcome as Christmas !
3 Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys .
4 Surprising though cause normally a place like that can need a car
5 Sadleir is unique amongst Arabian explorers , for his journey was involuntary and he loathed both the place and its ‘ turbulent barbarians ’ .
6 ‘ I know just the place , Doctor .
7 And I know just the place that will be open as well . ’
8 She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack .
9 And I know just the place to get it . ’
10 Chesarynth shuffled forward a place as the serpent line moved up .
11 The majority of courses provided students with insufficient help to understand clearly the place of English , or language , within the whole primary curriculum , that is to say how language ability should be developed in the context of the various elements of the curriculum and how in turn these can be more effectively learned by appropriate language activities .
12 The dominating size and aggressive shape of Sandweg church reminded Miss Danziger that it had played as great a part in the physical defence of the island as in its spiritual well-being ; but , although its size and shape were awesome at a distance , the church became increasingly a place of sanctuary as she neared it .
13 It clearly had a meaning , and it gave a voice to the peculiar state of tension that seemed to pervade both the place and its owner , and which clashed so oddly with the enormous peace of the landscape .
14 It was indeed a failure of such imagery , but it must be remembered that the very image of society , and in some cases of socialism , the council estate embodied was that imposed by academics and professionals , and never that of the residents , who have neither a place in the construction of that image , nor the means for its appropriation .
15 It is a ‘ dressed ’ look ; old jeans and misshapen tee-shirts have absolutely no place here ; neither , anymore , does the archetypal Keegan perm and glam-rock hairstyle of the seventies , which has now given way to the smoothly sculpted cut with every hair in its layered place .
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