Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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1 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
2 | Chucked all over the place . |
3 | At seven-thirty , in struggling daylight , we stopped briefly in a place identified in suitably small letters on the small station as Schreiber . |
4 | ‘ I 've been leading the life of Riley since I got away from the place . |
5 | You 've inspected the washroom , taken away a cupboard , photographed all over the place . ’ |
6 | Played all over the place ai n't he ? |
7 | Throughout the year therefore emissaries from the congregation drove all over the place , from Kirkcaldy to Bonnyrigg , Carricknowe and Musselburgh , and on their return had |
8 | Something laid up in a place , or committed to the charge of a person , for safe keeping . |
9 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
10 | Nails bit his tongue and slithered all over the place . |
11 | You know , it 's like I 'm suddenly there , just sort of plonked down in a place and I got to really struggle to remember how I got there . |
12 | She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs , but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh . |
13 | I I found that erm erm littered all over the place ! |
14 | Kandinskaya stared hard at her and said , ‘ The first one was apparently plucked out of its route between Mars and Andronicus and whisked away to a place in the asteroid belt some seventy-nine degrees away from here . |
15 | On the fourth evening of their waterborne journey they tied up at a place which had thickets of hazel and birch growing near the water . |
16 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
17 | Rourke stared down at the place where the menacing point of the scissors threatened his solar plexus . |
18 | After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable . |
19 | Miranda lay half asleep on a sofa in front of her sitting-room window , which looked down on the Place de la République ; from there , the road led to the distant perfume factory which Miranda wanted to buy . |
20 | The brown paper bag tied with white string hit the pavement , split and corn went all over the place . |
21 | and , and it went , cos it was quite a bit more worth petrol that went all over the place . |
22 | I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work . |
23 | At first she went all over the place , this way and that , and then into a spin . |
24 | He went all over the place looking , but he could n't get hold of it I mean it was obviously it was something that he made himself but it was beautiful ! |
25 | oh he went all over the place with that |
26 | Good morning ladies and gentlemen pshoow and they , they went all over the place . |
27 | So we went all over the place . |
28 | clamp from the middle , and erm , I used to carry like down the thing and I just got really out of control , went all over the place , like skis up in the air and one of them came off and the thing , actually , ripped off er , bottom of my boot . |
29 | Another thing which makes Nanking look less cluttered is the absence of the horse- and donkey-drawn vehicles which one saw all over the place in North China , including the main streets of Peking and Sian . |
30 | And we actually then went down and we looked all over the place and there are quite a number of pallets that in fact are not properly stacked . |