Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the Crusades , Europe took comfort in the expectation that somewhere in the East there ruled a mighty Christian monarch , Known as Prester John , who in due time would march on Jerusalem , destroy the infidel and liberate the Holy Places . |
| 2 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 3 | It remains to look at Innocent 's expansionist views towards the Eastern Church and Palestine , but they were grounded in age-old desires to re-unite Christendom and secure the Holy Places from the infidel . |
| 4 | The company is of course concerned with the operating system environment but realizes the real place to be right now is at the communications end . |
| 5 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 6 | If you are really living in a mess , have a grand clear-out and put the whole place straight ; after that try to discipline yourself to dean and tidy on a regular basis to keep it under control . |
| 7 | When I see these Islands in sight of each other , & possessed of but a scanty stock of animals , tenanted by these birds , but slightly differing in structure & filling the same place in Nature , I must suspect they are only varieties . |