Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 2 | Surprising though cause normally a place like that can need a car |
| 3 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you mind if I look over the place ? |
| 5 | Armies of monks in blood-red robes hang around the place . |
| 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 | Well get out the place then ! |
| 11 | Are we supposed simply to abdicate our responsibility and for every new place that 's started in the private sector , we close down a place in our er organisation . |
| 12 | ( e.g. Follow three consecutive actions such as ‘ Write down the place in the classroom where you think your plant will grow best , find out what the others on your table think and try to agree on which is likely to be the best place ’ . ) |
| 13 | ‘ Let's all go to Burleigh Heads [ in Queensland ] and take over the place for their best month . |
| 14 | The shrewd parent now gets our free starter pack for their son or daughter when they take up a place at Manor Park . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |