Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the centre a huge canopy shielded the place where the king and his leading nobility would sit . |
| 2 | Nothing had been disturbed here — although the air of desertion and my timid light lent the place a sinister aspect . |
| 3 | I bounded naked upstairs to find the place merrily ablaze . |
| 4 | At least two ‘ campaigns ’ are now up-and-running offering to fill the place held by the demised Vulcan Association ( VA ) . |
| 5 | an and a bloke sort of is shouting from the doorway to clear the place |
| 6 | But even for the Iranians the Hellenistic era meant a change in appreciation : the prophet Zoroaster took the place of King Cyrus as the most characteristic Iranian figure . |
| 7 | In some parts of the country it has been the practice to sell freehold land for building , and to take the price in the form of a perpetual rentcharge created by the purchaser ; this practice took the place of the more common building lease . |
| 8 | As Firestone puts it : ‘ Freudianism subsumed the place of feminism as the lesser of two evils ’ . |
| 9 | Advocates of state ‘ collectivism ’ very rarely wished government action to take the place of self-help , philanthropy and the duty to work , but rather to supplement and reinforce these attributes . |
| 10 | I would say it 's a pretty poor effort — at least , if it was their intention to burn the place down . ’ |
| 11 | Another , less likely , possibility is that your cat hates the place in which it is given its food dish . |
| 12 | Go to almost any city and you find sink estates where you get the feeling that the council hates the place and the people too . |
| 13 | I arrive just in time to run into the law turning the place upside down . |
| 14 | That same hushed reverence pervaded the place . |
| 15 | the girls of my school have to take the place entirely of the mother of the family ; the families are generally large ; the woman goes out in the morning , she works in a pickle house , if she is a better class woman she goes out charring , or she goes out step cleaning during the day and the little girl takes the place of the mother of the family . |
| 16 | Because council officers still fail to enforce council policy and because individuals involved in management are still unwilling to grasp the nettle and take up the argument the child lost the place . |
| 17 | The little boy loved the place . |
| 18 | In the next recipe , the fool has amalgamated with the syllabub and the trifle , the gooseberry fool taking the place of the cake at the bottom of the dish . |
| 19 | All writing depends on the materials with which it is executed , so when in European countries surfaces such as vellum , and instruments like the reed pen took the place of stone and chisel , the joining of letters into cursive styles became possible . |
| 20 | Discuss with pupils various techniques of recording information during a visit : making notes ; making sketches ; making a plan ; noting down measurements , etc. ; taking photographs ; using a video camera ; speaking into a cassette recorder ; recording various sounds on the site ; brass rubbings or stone rubbings ; artwork of various kinds ; collecting vocabulary to describe the place ; completing questions on a worksheet ; taking compass bearings . |
| 21 | The report called for a major debate each year on this White Paper and recommended the creation of a new public Expenditure Select Committee to take the place of the former Estimates Committee . |
| 22 | Once more I glanced at the large flour mill , temporarily closed , despite the addition of a new silvery turbine engine to take the place of water power . |
| 23 | You could use the life assurance money to buy the place and stay on . |
| 24 | ‘ This point can be proved by the constable dealing with the case describing the place sufficiently for it to come within the definition of ‘ street ’ at ( B ) 2 ante . |
| 25 | ‘ It is surely hardly a waste to put the place in order ? |
| 26 | The Nassauers ' battalion was doubling down the road , while their officers spurred towards the stream to mark the place where the infantry would form a line . |
| 27 | I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause , but I am sure you will understand the need to protect the place from fire or desecration . |
| 28 | She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear . |
| 29 | Boredom took the place of apprehension in Goreng 's mind ; he began to take it out on people . |
| 30 | The dry docks and shipbuilding yards were extremely busy providing the facilities for the repair and refit of ships damaged by enemy action and the production of new tonnage to take the place of numerous losses . |