Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the disputes in which the English Catholics were involved during Petre 's lifetime were about the place of lay power in an increasingly clericalized church or , as John Milner , bishop of Castabala [ q.v. ] , one of Petre 's most bitter critics , put it , ‘ whether the nomination of our Pastors shall be with Lord Petre or the successors of St Peter ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 3 | By all that 's holy , I 'd almost forgotten we were in a place where they sell beer . |
| 4 | Other families were in the Place of the Dead that night . |
| 5 | Well I seem to recall that we were in the place |
| 6 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 7 | THE International Olympic Committee president , Juan Antonio Samaranch , said yesterday that beach volleyball was worth a place in the Olympic Games . |
| 8 | It was like a place to hide in , a great strong haven holding her … but she knew she could n't stay there . |
| 9 | Sandison 's idling thoughts were suddenly overtaken by his realisation that he was in a place far , far from home , a place so different and not exactly hostile but alien , perhaps unknowable . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ I was in a place once when a man fired a gun at me and I did not like it at all . |
| 11 | ‘ The Store was in a place called Blackbury , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I 've never talked so much in my life and they were interested , they were , I got all sorts of things in , Britannicus and Henry VIII and The Broken Heart and The Winter 's Tale and feminine endings and they did n't stop me , they said go on — oh and Satan 's speech to Eve in the garden — I was in a place of my own — oh glory . " |
| 13 | I ne I do n't know I never was in a place where there was one like that . |
| 14 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 15 | ‘ Name of a fox , ’ said Blackbeard between his teeth , ‘ the woman was in the place and saw it handed to me . |
| 16 | For He was in the Place of the Succulent Rock , and left his children to SUFFER here and I have suffered here and AM DONE with suffering . |
| 17 | that was in the place called . |
| 18 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 19 | That was on the place . |
| 20 | Dot knew that her father was at a place that Gloria rarely talked to other people about , but kept like some kind of secret . |
| 21 | I remember my first-ever game , it was at a place called The Golden Sands Holiday Camp , and they had one snooker table , right next to the miniature railway — it used to be very off-putting when you were playing in the holiday camp competition . |
| 22 | It was at , it was at the place where the football where you got us a grant playing with those little scum . |