Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [adj -er] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I could show you a nicer place to stroll , show you the town . |
| 2 | ‘ He gave me twelve months to find him a bigger place , ’ recalled Thomas . |
| 3 | She felt we should get her a healthier place , one where we could stay with her when we come over here . ’ |
| 4 | Or her , ’ she would add scrupulously , being among other things a feminist ) , but in practice this does n't seem to affect her behaviour very noticeably — she seems to have ordinary human feelings , ambitions , desires , to suffer anxieties , frustrations , fears , like anyone else in this imperfect world , and to have a natural inclination to try and make it a better place . |
| 5 | And while his mother may have forgotten Dublin and his father , who had given his life to make it a better place for his children to live in , Patrick had not . |
| 6 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 7 | The historical process of transforming the world , making it a better place , recovering a pre-lapsarian global Eden in its pristine simplicity , will end up with people selling it to each other by the dollar , pound or yen . |
| 8 | That allegory is complex , but seems mainly concerned with the way in which Frankenstein , standing for science in general , wishes to remould the world for the better , and instead leaves it a worse place than he finds it . |