Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Take the words used for the place for eliminating : bathroom , convenience , lavatory , loo , toilet , water closet ( WC ) . |
| 3 | I think er through the figures that he was producing we all realized something was up and various computers flying around the place you know , and the figures produced by them . |
| 4 | The horses that the count reared were also in evidence , some actually in the railed compounds dotted around the place , and beyond , towards the mountains , Maggie could see well-fenced fields with white and grey horses roaming peacefully . |
| 5 | Each had a cracked and grubby-looking concrete floor lined with a layer of shingle , a concrete shelter for retreat , one or two bare branches to act as a place to take stance ; and in most there was a small pool of water for cleaning and drinking . |
| 6 | The warmth of feeling many Garden visitors have for the place is greatly cherished by those of us who work in it , and we deeply appreciate the feelings of all who wish to be associated with our activities . |
| 7 | As soon as the election was completed and announced in the words " St Peter elects Lothar pope " , three doves flew into the place where the cardinals were assembled and when Lothar was singled out from the others the whitest of them settled on his right shoulder . |
| 8 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 9 | He seemed completely in his element , though all those monks flitting round the place rather gave me the creeps . |
| 10 | I have many times entered into the place that is called , and rightly , the Gateway to Hell . |
| 11 | But certain files relating to the place and the time are listed as closed . |
| 12 | McGibbon got the A levels needed for a place at University before he left Portadown for Old Trafford last summer . |
| 13 | Thus , just as place deixis encodes spatial locations on coordinates anchored to the place of utterance , so time deixis encodes times on co-ordinates anchored to the time of utterance . |
| 14 | However , the basic algorithm will find the right clusters if the example is transformed into polar coordinates centred at the place marked ’ + ’ ; for then , all the points on the circle are transformed onto a line which projects to a small region on the r-axis ( Figure 5.5 ) . |
| 15 | Today college friends congregated at the place in Lower High Street where Murray was attacked . |
| 16 | I 've got 20 players fighting for a place and 11 who do n't want to give up the shirt . |
| 17 | Friends of friends wandered around the place . |
| 18 | Prisoners passed through the place so fast that it ceased to be a camp in the true sense altogether . |
| 19 | A group of children clustered at the place where the bridge forked to provide access to a set of warehouses . |
| 20 | Replacive minerals grow in the place of earlier mineral phases . |
| 21 | It was the custom for men to come to the place only by invitation . |
| 22 | Between now and next Pack Meeting shall we all keep our eyes open and our minds alert for a place ? ’ |
| 23 | A narrow plot of mean suburban proportions compared to the place he had once possessed . |
| 24 | The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves , starlings blew about the place like avian litter . |
| 25 | Then write up a list of clues corresponding to the place where the items are hidden . |
| 26 | There are always young boys hanging round the place . |
| 27 | The room was untouched by her presence — no suitcase , no clothes lying about the place . |
| 28 | What could be so vital to send him and two women trekking around the place ? |
| 29 | Look closer and you 'll see the TiGi Linea haircare range and Toni & Guy posters dotted about the place . |
| 30 | I know there are a lot of boxes piled around the place . |