Example sentences of "in the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin even cooked , every pan in the place , ‘ nothing too good for my wife ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ There were only about 10 houses in the place , but there were so many people , you could n't believe it . |
| 3 | Market : The town market takes place on Wednesday and Saturday in the place Jean Bart . |
| 4 | If students in the 1990s have difficulty in distinguishing all the political parties and coalitions that sprang up in Petrograd after the February Revolution , how could a peasant in 1917 be expected to assimilate them in the place of the Tsar , who at least represented a more easily understood form of political authority ? |
| 5 | It was open to everybody , but clearly it was convenient for people working in the place . |
| 6 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |
| 7 | In The Place of the Lion , the Platonic archetypes of which objects and creatures in the world are but reflections or repetitions actually appear . |
| 8 | Her husband , who had been so attentive in the sunshine , was back on home territory , in the place he loved best on earth , surrounded by the people and the activities he loved most . |
| 9 | I ended up dining in a Pizza Hut in the basement of the shopping centre , the only customer in the place . |
| 10 | When at the end his brothers poured out their guilt and begged him for forgiveness , he replied with the words , ‘ Fear not , for am I in the place of God ? ’ |
| 11 | Coffee will help — blessedly hot liquid to scald or drown those shaggy beasts in the brick shelter so many miles away from here in the place I once called Home . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions . |
| 13 | We could n't discuss anything in the place . |
| 14 | We order you to cause the said oaks to be delivered to him in the place which is most suitable for transporting them , and to assist him to find men to cut them down and carry them , at our expense . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a terrible shame that , after all these years of feminism , women should be back in the place where they are regarded as expendable . |
| 16 | There was no battleship to be seen and the only kangaroo in the place was the dead one mounted on the wall . |
| 17 | Instead we should look directly in the place where the answer lies … the proper study of Mankind . |
| 18 | Obstructing you and everyone else in the place , come to that . |
| 19 | They were ugly and ungainly , but necessary , Blackadder thought , as they sprang up like the heads of the Hydra , two to solve in the place of one solved . |
| 20 | Ellen Wilkinson , for two tragically short years until her death in the frozen February of 1947 , sat in the place which Butler had created at the Ministry of Education . |
| 21 | They had altered the street route system since last he 'd been in the place . |
| 22 | His portrait hangs in the place of honour in the Boston office of the Anglian Water Authority . |
| 23 | He sat in the place that Maidstone had suggested , at a table at the end of the café 's pavement area . |
| 24 | Henry was going to add a chapter towards the end of The Complete History of Wimbledon in which he planned to deal with the failure of nerve he sensed in the place . |
| 25 | The Norber Boulders are erratics , having no right by birth to be in the place where they are now found . |
| 26 | Watching him , teasing him , tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs , Nails idled the afternoon away , pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait : the busybody care people poking their noses in , the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear , no more riding at Biddy 's , no nothing at all , not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby . |
| 27 | He is generally believed to be commemorated in the place name Caradon , which formerly applied only to the hill around which he held sway but now covers a complete District of South East Cornwall . |
| 28 | That French soldiers were billeted in the place was unfortunate but not surprising . |
| 29 | Every room in the place had been barricaded separately ; the enemy would have to take not one stronghold , but a dozen . |
| 30 | Nobody in the place looked exactly relaxed . |