Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 2 | Second-hand pipe organs are sometimes worth considering when they are fine instruments and when the total cost of their purchase , removal and rebuilding in a place suitable for them makes economic sense . |
| 3 | For a long time we have been thinking and praying about a place of our own . |
| 4 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
| 5 | They went across the fields and came to a place where a few stones lay , giving no indication at all that they had once combined to form a dwelling for holy women . |
| 6 | To be absolutely sure she followed one of them and came to the place where they curved round in front of a tree and retreated . |
| 7 | He was light for what he did and played in a place and at a time when very heavy tackling was the chief feature of the game . |
| 8 | I suggested we park the motor cycle and walk from the place des Vosges . |
| 9 | You can stay here and look after the place whilst we 're gone . |
| 10 | The sweet scent of her native land came back to her , but she also began to remember the terror she had felt when she was wrenched from her home and transported to a place beside the sea . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ We are on the march and heading for a place in the German parliament . |
| 12 | She 's going to get a job and look for a place of her own . ’ |
| 13 | Deeply grateful to Kathy , she said , ‘ Tomorrow I 'm going to pick up Josh , take the train to Warminster , and look for a place where we can start all over again . ’ |
| 14 | Come and look at the place , William had said , it 's like everyone 's dream of a Victorian childhood . |
| 15 | He 'll learn there 's more to being a man than hunting and lolling about the place . |
| 16 | Also , I produce and operate in a place and time-zone that colleges , institutions and so on do n't . |
| 17 | The end of the arcade was full of women , all of them whispering and staring towards the place where Zurachina 's servants had set down her chair . |
| 18 | She looked and looked at the place where the fire had been , searching for the future , but could only see ashes . |
| 19 | He walked round the cold rooms and looked at the place with a stranger 's eyes . |
| 20 | The previous one had never been clean before the next one arrived ; they had had dummies shoved in their mouths to keep them quiet until they were four or five ; and they crawled , ran and fell around the place — filthy , whining and hungry — until Onyx was forced to give them some of the attention they needed . |
| 21 | But herein lay his greatest distress at this moment : he was utterly unable to name and fix on a place . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He 's sweet , Changez , it 's true , the way he grunts with satisfaction as he reads , and bumbles around the place asking me if I want some keema . |
| 23 | There are so many people who come and go in a place like this , it could be anyone . ’ |
| 24 | They 're a mile from the nearest road and accessible only by foot , unless of course you 're one of the thousands of seabirds wheeling and jostling for a place on the rocky ledges . |
| 25 | When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street . |
| 26 | After travelling around the continent to a constellation of cities linked by who her father knew , it was a relief to cross the Channel alone and to arrive at a place where it was not generally such a struggle to make herself understood . |
| 27 | You have to be black and live in a place like Deptford : then it sounds believable . |
| 28 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 29 | Well I live in in live in Nottinghamshire , born and bred at a place called which is it 's about er twenty four miles North of Nottingham . |
| 30 | The depth of our batting meant he had to wait longer than some , but he is a fiercely committed Lancastrian and he has been prepared to stay put and fight for a place instead of looking elsewhere for a regular spot . ’ |