Example sentences of "[prep] a place that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two rooms led out of it — the scullery , and a long , low barn of a place that was absolutely bare . |
| 2 | But one can still go to Shardlow , which has sunk back into obscurity , and see the tall warehouses , the wharves , and the later Georgian Shardlow Hall where the prosperous James Sutton lived , and all the other evidences of a place that was virtually created by the canal age . |
| 3 | Subtitled ‘ A short history of Everton , its Mother Church , and one of its mid-Victorian Churchwardens , including notes on how to start tracing a Family Tree ’ , it highlights the fortunes of the Mould family and by so doing it provides insights into the character of a place that was overwhelmed by its powerful neighbour 's rapid expansion . |
| 4 | Like a place that was waiting to die . |
| 5 | It was freezing — literally — so after a not-too-exhaustive search we settled for a place that was warm and , as it turned out , very good . |
| 6 | We went to a place that was called ‘ Judges ’ . |
| 7 | It would be the first time she had ever been with John to a place that was part of her own particular world , unless one counted the Ash Wednesday lunchtime service at her uncle 's church . |
| 8 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |