Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 2 | Romance and mystery were added to the place when Meade Falkner wrote Moonfleet , the classic children 's adventure story which was loosely based on this family and hamlet , though set nearer to the sea . |
| 3 | Well into the seventeenth century , the Alps were seen as a place where the only activity was shovelling snow from the 45° pastures . |
| 4 | No , we why do you think , what we er we er , if if you said if you were looking round a place an , and and a mother said , I 'm surprised that you have n't segregated the men from the women in the dorm . |
| 5 | Herbs were , first and foremost , grown primarily for healing and flavouring and , as such , were grown in a place reserved for them , whether it was part of a monastery garden , or part of the vegetable patch of peasant or yeoman farmer . |
| 6 | On 23 March , 1981 , we were transferred to a place called Tazmamert on the edge of the desert , handcuffed and blindfolded , travelling by helicopter and van . |
| 7 | And they were the originals of these were made in a place called in Germany . |
| 8 | Here in the Abu Dhabi/Al Ain area it was both a statement and a signature used only by those whose lives were rooted in the place . |
| 9 | They had left behind the Silberner Hirsch and were moving towards the place where I lay . |
| 10 | So that women porters could cope , the weight of luggage allowed to passengers was restricted and three women were employed in the place of two men . |
| 11 | His eyes were fixed on the place where the path disappeared into the fog . |
| 12 | That French soldiers were billeted in the place was unfortunate but not surprising . |
| 13 | England were assured of a place in the final when Lisa Opie , the holder , beat the second-seeded Australian , Robyn Lambourne in four games . |
| 14 | A gang or tribe of pre-fire apepeople were huddled about the place : there was Spunk , sharpening his spear . |
| 15 | Two days he was hanging around the place . |
| 16 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 17 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 18 | The cult was detached from the place of its own original environment , and thus opened European routes to sacred travel , sacred commerce , and , eventually , sacred theft . |
| 19 | She would have no trouble in finding a tenant for the cottage ; already Simon Clifford , a neighbour , had approached her on behalf of an acquaintance of his who was looking for a place in the area . |
| 20 | No mention was made of the place of other Tanzanian news within this Ministerial pecking order . |
| 21 | They repeat stories of how the Tower was built on a place used for ancient sacrifice . |
| 22 | There was an ache in my middle as if a rock was lodged in the place where all my habits had been — my going-to-bed routine of always brushing my teeth last thing of all so that my mouth felt glowing fresh before I curled up under my duvet and drifted off into sleep . |
| 23 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 24 | Yet the DSS was paying for the place and she could have shopped around if she had been provided with the help to do this . |
| 25 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 26 | In fact he was waiting for the place , its calm and its unconcern , to make him feel better . |
| 27 | ‘ I was born in a place of shadows , of memories , of decline . |
| 28 | I was born in a place called Denham . |
| 29 | The exciting promise John had revealed over the previous eighteen months was rewarded by a place on the England tour of Australasia in June 1991 where he demonstrated his capacity to excite the crowd and to bemuse the opposition by featuring prominently in all four matches , thereby staking a claim for a regular inclusion in the national side . |
| 30 | His decision was rewarded by a place in the Championship side , and with 43 and 40 on his debut against Essex , 78 off Sussex and then 76 against Kent , he soon confirmed the high potential recognised by director of cricket Geoff Cook . |