Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 2 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 3 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 4 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 5 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 6 | Well over 100 applications had been received for 35 places on a new course starting this year . |
| 7 | Picture a beautiful scene — whatever kind of landscape pleases you the most — and imagine that you are walking through that place . |
| 8 | Now : what do you know about this place ? |
| 9 | I do not think the compulsion to write about foreign places can be very closely compared to a painter 's sensuous delight in new light , new forms , new colours , Monet seeing the Cap d'Antibes in blue and rose , Turner seeing the bright watery Venetian light in Venice , Gauguin in Tahiti . |
| 10 | You are coming to Andalucía to write about this place , to photograph it . |
| 11 | Opinions might considerably have differed between those places . |
| 12 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 13 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 14 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 15 | Ian Ferguson and Pieter Huistra wo n't be considered for first-team places until next week . |
| 16 | They moved into second place , underlining the fact they are a team of substance this season , thanks to a first half spectacular from keeper Kevin Hitchcock . |
| 17 | EDDIE Irvine moved into second place in the All-Japan Formula 3000 championship with his first victory of the season at Suzuka yesterday . |
| 18 | Wattana , who moved into third place , could overtake Hendry and Davis at the top if he wins his two matches in hand . |
| 19 | New Zealander Greg Turner moved into third place on 13 under with a birdie , his sixth of the day , at the last . |
| 20 | Holders Sweden moved into third place at 11 under , while Wales are joint fourth with Australia a shot further back . |
| 21 | Northampton moved into fourth place after a hard-fought 12–7 win over Harlequins . |
| 22 | Fellow Ulsterman Ronan Rafferty , who just missed out on a Ryder Cup cap , moved into fourth place on six under , six behind , with a 68 . |
| 23 | Scotland , on it 's own , would fall into sixth place . |
| 24 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 25 | Similarly no one who has attended the Yeats Summer School in Sligo will deny that the seminars and lectures are less profitable than driving to Glencar , or Gort , and walking in those places , or wandering in the demesne of Lissadell and under the shoulder of Ben Bulben . |
| 26 | John is convinced that most of the houses ghostly happenings are come from one place ; the so-called Bishop 's bedroom . |
| 27 | From the list given in the book , he chooses only herbs which grow in wet places that the fish would naturally have access to . |
| 28 | I 've yet to see anything except weeds grow in this place . " |
| 29 | Cadbury has a ten per cent share by value of the European chocolate market , and lies in fifth place behind Nestlé , Mars , Suchard and Ferrero . |
| 30 | Pendrich has also qualified for the sprint freestyle , but currently lies in eleventh place and has little chance of replacing Sheppard as the new champion . |