Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know this after a dispiriting tour of San Francisco looking for a place to eat at 10 pm . |
| 2 | As a child the continuous moves had taught Eva to leave behind the place they had been and give herself to the new . |
| 3 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 4 | he continued , suddenly grinning at the tall old man as they walked between the levels of stoves and cookers and fires , Scullions ran about the place , carrying brooms and buckets and baskets full of hidden ingredients . |
| 5 | Hamish gazed about the place . |
| 6 | Mr Thomas Sumison , the master mason from Colerne who almost certainly built it , was a genius , for Swangrove belongs to the place . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests . |
| 8 | But he missed out because he had been in Copenhagen trying for a place in the Olympic team . |
| 9 | Doctor Teesdale pointed to the place where the ghost had stood . |
| 10 | What use were services that recalled the Crucifixion when there was Timothy Gedge wandering about the place , a far better reminder of waste and destruction ? |
| 11 | Atkinson , Ferguson 's predecessor at Old Trafford returns to the place where his United side were usually thereabouts — but never there . |
| 12 | Hand will play three-times former champion Jeremy Bates or qualifier Mike Wyeth for a place in Sunday 's final . |
| 13 | The wall faded rapidly , leaving Lacuna staring at the place where the next stone had been about to appear . |
| 14 | Because that 's the description Thomas Johnson gave of the place when he came here in 1639 , and this was the self-same weather he experienced , and here 's the point . |
| 15 | Tuppe glanced about the place . |
| 16 | Miss Danziger waited at the place known as Lakeside at St Lund , where small craft poached alongside the road . |
| 17 | Clinton comes from a place named Hope — and it is hope other leaders are placing on his shoulders . |
| 18 | Dreamer crouched above the place where his father had lost his youngest son . |
| 19 | John Chadwick ( 1976 , p. 87 ) comments that the word ‘ Athena ’ has a form suggesting a pre-Greek place-name , so it may be that Athena originated as the Potnia worshipped at a place called Athens or something similar . |
| 20 | In 1977 I enlisted the help of the Department at Nottingham to apply for a place at St Antony 's , an international studies college at Oxford . |
| 21 | Mrs. Bidwell rushed for a place of vantage . |
| 22 | In the hope that Willsford adapts to the place , I take him to come home first , ahead of Cool Ground , Brown Windsor and Stay On Tracks . |
| 23 | What could Kronweiser want at a place like that , do you think ? ’ |
| 24 | Beth had thought her son and Cissie were still in the garden , so was pleasantly surprised to see the two of them already in the kitchen ; Richard eagerly awaiting his tea , and Cissie fussing with a place setting . |
| 25 | On the morning of the fourth day , with Men and People still in pursuit wherever he went , Creggan headed for a place where the food was where no Men were near . |