Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 2 | I thought Mrs Kettering must have an old father who wrote somewhere about the place . ’ |
| 3 | Except in a reference to the composition of Sweeney Agonistes , he wrote little about the place of alcohol , or any other narcotic , in literary creation . |
| 4 | I read up a little about the place . ’ |
| 5 | Her flatmates Mandy and Debby flitted fanciably about the place , half-dressed , serving me coffee with the reverence due to a moneyman and debt-settler . |
| 6 | But although his next three rounds were more respectable , Olazabal 's final total of 287 was n't good enough for a place among the leading 24 who are awarded automatic invitations back to Augusta . |
| 7 | I had no interest in what this house should be like wishing only for a place and quickly to lay my head and could hardly rouse myself to inspect it . |
| 8 | The growth cabinets are normally used only as a place to grow plants in a controlled way , measurements being made in the laboratory . |
| 9 | Mr Knowd said he was anxious that the church would be used not only as a place of worship , but also as a conference centre and concert venue by both sides of the community . |
| 10 | Among the more satisfied will be Aston Villa whose one one draw with currently Spain 's hottest club er certainly sets them up nicely for a place in the third round of the UEFA Cup . |
| 11 | Elizabeth had noticed the lighthouse on her flight back to England two years previously , and had marked it down as a place that she must see . |
| 12 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 13 | ‘ When somebody is in a situation where they feel there is no way out , feel trapped , lost , unloved , helpless , powerless , they are in a definite negative spiral and are getting deeper and deeper into a place where they are more and more frightened and despairing . |
| 14 | He passed the rope through the now open apertures , down into the place where those toffee-brown overcoats had once hung and above them the brown felt hats with their Cambridge-blue ribbons . |
| 15 | The chief superintendent had a corner office with a view down onto the place where tenders took on loads of aviation fuel from huge land-based tanks . |
| 16 | In union with him , all of you are being built together into a place where God lives through his Spirit . |
| 17 | Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps it is just far enough from the place where she was killed , to divert our attention . ’ |
| 19 | It will be all round the place in no time . ’ |
| 20 | But besides that , we 've collected half a dozen more , various but his , from all round the place . |
| 21 | He might sit it out ten minutes just to annoy , but not the time it took him to fidget all round the place as he seems to have done . |
| 22 | As well as that there were Leeds fans everyf*ckinwhere , all round the place it seemed . |
| 23 | And I 've been all round the place . |
| 24 | He used to find them all round the place ! |
| 25 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 26 | In the vital chapter ‘ The Shadow of the Past ’ Gandalf says a great deal about it , but his information boils down to three basic data : ( 1 ) the Ring is immensely powerful , in right or wrong hands ; ( 2 ) it is dangerous and ultimately fatal to all its possessors — in a sense there are no right hands ; ( 3 ) it can not simply be left unused or put aside , but must be destroyed , something which can happen only in the place of its origin , Orodruin , Mount Doom . |
| 27 | You know , it 's like I 'm suddenly there , just sort of plonked down in a place and I got to really struggle to remember how I got there . |
| 28 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 29 | Two kingdoms come together in the place … nothing can keep them apart … black birds roosting in the turret … sing Come and play come and play some body up here want play with you … |
| 30 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |