Example sentences of "the place [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The studio was instantly transformed into a toy-strewn , Russian-speaking nursery as Misha took the place over . |
| 2 | The one with the place over in Whitechapel ? ’ |
| 3 | I 've spoken to him in the past about making the place over to you . |
| 4 | Rather than remain uninvolved in village activities and risking the accusation of being ‘ stand-offish ’ , many of them enthusiastically throw themselves into the life of the community , provoking the opposite complaint from the local population of ‘ wanting to take the place over ’ . |
| 5 | It would n't bother your brother one jot if I handed the place over to Harry when I got too old to manage it . |
| 6 | We could have just done the place over and that would have been that . |
| 7 | A farmer friend of mine came to look the place over shortly after we bought it and he gave me some useful advice : that , whatever happened , we must enjoy doing the work . |
| 8 | She looked the place over while Josie was paying off the cab . |
| 9 | We drift around looking the place over for accommodation , eventually selecting a wooden building called Sand Dune Apartments . |
| 10 | I 've informed him that we 'll be taking the place over in the near future , but not why , naturally . ’ |
| 11 | I went out to check the date on the and to turn the place over . |
| 12 | And nobody 's taken the place over have they ? |
| 13 | ‘ Look , Dorothy , I hired you because I thought you might shake the place up a bit , so if you are unhappy here , that 's at least partly my fault . |
| 14 | We shut the place up early that evening and then all went round to the pub for a further celebration . |
| 15 | I had some paper dolls one time , but me landlady got rid of them , said they were messing the place up . |
| 16 | — What did you have to smash the place up for , eh ? |
| 17 | ‘ They can do what they like for me — blow the place up for all I care — I 'll be off to my mobile home in Lytham St Annes before long . ’ |
| 18 | But when she had asked if they could n't warm the place up a bit with some pretty colors , Dr. Briant had said sharply that they had to avoid confusing their color appreciation tests later , and she 'd have all the color she wanted then . |
| 19 | ‘ No , let me — if I do n't clean the place up there 'll be a hue and cry . ’ |
| 20 | His idea was to infiltrate the Lancia , which was armed with a Breda machine gun on the back , into an Italian convoy and shoot the place up , with a view to grabbing some prisoners . |
| 21 | Might freshen the place up a bit , thought Nelly , stepping out into the storm . |
| 22 | One unlocked and you got in touch with the station and they would contact the key-keeper and they would come out and lock the place up . |
| 23 | ’ Her old fellow 's smashing the place up and so I says , ‘ Listen , there 's a bobby standing in the next street . ’ |
| 24 | Then Frank arrived one weekend with a team of his workmates to wire the place up and install the plugs and light fittings . |
| 25 | A few half-hearted attempts at brightening the place up with posters have been made by a succession of teachers , but it does n't really help because the huts suffer from terminal damp and the posters quickly go all brown and blotchy making the general appearance of the hut 's interior more , not less , gloomy . |
| 26 | We usually have to queue up in the rain because Mr Barnes — our ‘ Supa-Tuta ’ — keeps the door locked until his arrival , to prevent vandalism ( although there are those who think that a spot of creative vandalism would smarten the place up a bit ! ) . |
| 27 | The unstated fear , says one priest , ‘ is that the Congress Party will let things settle and then start cleaning the place up — beginning with ordinary people ’ . |
| 28 | The scheme has another advantage , in that it is a very cost-effective way of brightening the place up , especially as each design has a ‘ tube life ’ of at least a year . |
| 29 | But he could n't enlighten them : he only had orders to ‘ paint the place up a bit ’ . |
| 30 | Did ye lock the place up after ye ? ’ |