Example sentences of "the place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Plutarch says ( Aratos xvi ) of the Akrokorinth : ‘ it hinders and cuts off all the country south of the Isthmus from intercourse , transits , and the carrying on of military expeditions by land and sea , and makes him who controls the place with a garrison sole lord of Greece . ’ |
| 2 | He walked round the cold rooms and looked at the place with a stranger 's eyes . |
| 3 | Beamish prodded the place with a stubby forefinger . |
| 4 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 5 | The locals still used the place as a tip , and piles of old tyres and other junk lay about . |
| 6 | Both are chilling tales : blood and guts all over the place as a teenager pumps a shotgun at her school fellows in Monster , while in The Train a bunch of high school friends travelling from Chicago to San Francisco confess their guilty and vicious secrets before falling victim to savage revenge . |
| 7 | ‘ You should keep more pigs and run the place as a farm , ’ Simon said . |
| 8 | But old Hoggatt founded the place as a police lab , and when the chips are down that 's what it 's all about . |
| 9 | My guess is that your vendor was scared that if she waited much longer it would be impossible to sell the place as a going concern and she would lose out completely on fittings and goodwill . |
| 10 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 11 | They had a there was a sort of electric burner in the place as a whole |
| 12 | What would be the place of a united Germany in relation to the cold war alliances ? ; |
| 13 | Beer line systems have a pressurised detergent solution vessel which takes the place of a keg and use the pumps and controls of the beer dispense equipment with a standing period . |
| 14 | For if he should say ‘ I leave him this ’ or ‘ I commend ’ , because these are direct words , they can not have the place of a trust . |
| 15 | Most of us are used to the familiar Baker Street landmark now , its squat green ( copper ) dome topped with a disconcertingly transparent Saturn in the place of a weather vane . |
| 16 | It is a name that has certainly had its share of exposure ever since the 19-year old batsman arrived in England to take the place of Australia 's tearaway fast bowler Craig McDermott , The editorial in the May issue made passing reference to the volte face implicit in a very good batsman taking the place of a very good bowler . |
| 17 | This took the place of a pre-release course ( which would be impossible to plan in an institution where some men were so far away from release and others might be released on parole licence at very short notice ) but it covered many of the same topics . |
| 18 | Although the 1624 Act against letting an individual hold a monopoly meant that no businessman could take the place of a trading company , there was no reason why an individual should not hold a charter as a great landlord . |
| 19 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 20 | These indications of the importance of small firm production and the extent of subcontracting make it vital to recognize the place of a differentiated structure of production in assessing the causes of Japan 's rapid economic growth . |
| 21 | Unlike Jeanne of Artois , whom he judged to be ‘ prodigal and immoral ’ , the pope thought Margaret well able take the place of a mother and commended her to philip V. She had in effect governed Béarn , and governed it well , since Gaston I 's death in 1315 , but was to die in 1319 . |
| 22 | This procedure is indicative of a fundamental difference in determining the place of a person in society . |
| 23 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 24 | There are many techniques of archaeological interpretation , and several layers at which interpretation is necessary , from sorting out the structural sequence of excavated buildings to assessing the place of a nation in world history . |
| 25 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 26 | That is , a number takes the place of a letter . |
| 27 | So again , it 's a thing which you might consider when you 're er letting vehicles come in front and er I the rights and wrongs of erm flashing lights , er really the only flashing lights should take the place of a horn . |
| 28 | But the Commission believes that no radio or television presenter can adequately take the place of a live teacher , and that no school should depend almost wholly on a centralised choice of music , particularly of hymns or songs . |
| 29 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 30 | A substitution note is a note which takes the place of a harmony note immediately adjacent to it ( sometimes above , sometimes below ) . |