Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implements available here for cleaning were as many and as varied in colour and smell as the places which I had to clean . |
| 2 | It 's easy to see why many people say of the place ‘ Once seen never forgotten ’ . |
| 3 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 4 | Replacive minerals grow in the place of earlier mineral phases . |
| 5 | I suggested we park the motor cycle and walk from the place des Vosges . |
| 6 | Why did n't the word standard get put in the place of quality we can have standard assurance as opposed to quality assurance ? |
| 7 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
| 8 | Those who act at the place of business must be doing so on the business of the company and not their own account ; the crucial question has been said to be , ‘ Does the agent in carrying out the foreign corporation 's business make a contract for the corporation , or does the agent in carrying out his own business , sell a contract for the foreign corporation ? ’ . |
| 9 | The skull with the lead in it doth weigh thirty pounds and sixe ounces , which with the neck-bone , and some other bones ( in like manner full of lead ) are reserued , and kept in a little chest in the said Church , neare to the place where the corps were found ; there to bee showne to strangers as reliques of admiration . |
| 10 | As you look at the place you have chosen , daylight turns to dusk ; the colours become muted and the shadows lengthen . |
| 11 | Look at the place . |
| 12 | Come and look at the place , William had said , it 's like everyone 's dream of a Victorian childhood . |
| 13 | Yeah the amount of crap I get through the place you would n't believe it . |
| 14 | Use the pass on the day of your choice as often as you like between the places of interest , and your will find that it is the most enjoyable way of seeing arguably Europe 's most exciting city ! |
| 15 | Could a ship of any size — I mean , a ship capable of being in Bilbao now — get to the place ? " |
| 16 | Remind them that people who actually grow vegetables usually refer to the place where they are grown as vegetable plots , or even vegetable gardens : a bit prosaic maybe but easily understood . |
| 17 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 18 | You go stupid on yourself for a moment , as the luck wobbles , threatens to fly away and leave you ; you stare at the place where he was , lying curled up , tied up in front of the door ; you stare at the empty stretch of carpet , dumbly , as if staring will help . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel for the place , ’ he says , ‘ and they need someone here to look after it . ’ |
| 20 | There was a strange feel about the place as though somebody or something was watching . |
| 21 | There was a cold , unlived-in , unloved feel about the place . |
| 22 | It is very continental and it gives a great feel to the place . |
| 23 | Or even if you have to clarify the title by saying who is responsible for making sure that materials that you use arrive at the place that they 're supposed to arrive at the time . |
| 24 | When , for example , I was interviewing Moonies , I would ask them to describe their childhood and see whether religion was mentioned , then ask about the place of religion in their lives and see what kind of response I received before posing more specific questions about church going , belief in God , confirmation , the religious beliefs and practices of their parents — and so on . |
| 25 | To move Holmes , just click on the place where you want him to go . |
| 26 | You go to the place round the corner . |
| 27 | Finally , go to the place yourself . |
| 28 | Go to the place , Dornhausen . |
| 29 | ‘ And today we will leave the hills behind , and go to the places where men dwell . ’ |
| 30 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |