Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers are all right , I suppose , you 'd miss them fussing about the place , but ould fellows are like that hind tits of a cow – no good for use or ornament . |
| 2 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 3 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 4 | Most of the time , she seems to be asleep — that 's when she 's walking round the place . ’ |
| 5 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 6 | But certain files relating to the place and the time are listed as closed . |
| 7 | Item 3 of Schedule 3 to the TMA 1970 specifies that an appeal against any part of a Schedule E assessment should take place in the Commissioner 's division relating to the place of employment . |
| 8 | As regards the condition relating to the place of operation , direction and control of the vessel , the applicants in the main proceedings stated in the first place that the flag state might legitimately require some measure of onshore representation in order to ensure that the authorities of that state had some method of tracing the responsibility of the operator . |
| 9 | ( c ) The requirement relating to the place of management , direction and control of the vessel |
| 10 | The condition relating to the place of operation , direction and control of the vessel ( paragraph ( i ) ( c ) of question ( 2 ) , as reformulated ) |
| 11 | In many cases , these are the earliest references to trading at the places concerned ; and in some , the record has been made precisely because the king is granting the right to run a market . |
| 12 | The Palestinians are blamed , plus any Iraqi soldiers who may still be lurking around the place . |
| 13 | I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do . |
| 14 | What use were services that recalled the Crucifixion when there was Timothy Gedge wandering about the place , a far better reminder of waste and destruction ? |
| 15 | He entered the maze of streets and alleyways below Piazza Amedeo , looking for the place where he had seen the little beggar girl with the bandaged leg . |
| 16 | It buys weapons while Iraqi arms purchases are embargoed , and while UN inspectors prowl the Iraqi desert destroying chemical weapons and looking for the places where Mr Hussein may still be trying to build nuclear ones . |
| 17 | Sometimes in the evenings she had too strong a sense of being locked into the life of the farmhouse , even with the door continuously open on the summer yard , her brother away in the fields , her mother stumbling about the place with buckets , leaning on the table or the back of a chair whenever she stood to talk . |
| 18 | ‘ Look , lady — ’ little Cleo staggered back into the room clutching a bright red balloon' — I just happened to be there , looking after the place while the owner was away . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't mind looking after the place for a few days , do you ? ’ |
| 20 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh — well , I suppose I 'll have to spend my time in just looking round the place . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 23 | They will also use the data from two major surveys which have been funded directly by the ESRC : the survey , for which Paul Edwards is primarily responsible , looking at the place of industrial relations considerations within managerial decision-making in large manufacturing establishments , and the so-called ‘ Higher Level Survey ’ , for which Paul Marginson is responsible , looking at the hitherto neglected area of enterprise-level decision-making in industrial relations . |
| 24 | Next Tuesday it 's the turn of drama and literature , and I shall be looking at the place of Britain in Europe with the help of Gabriel Droskapovchy . |
| 25 | The room was untouched by her presence — no suitcase , no clothes lying about the place . |
| 26 | Going about the place telling everyone what a fine fellow you are does little to improve your image . |
| 27 | Yet the DSS was paying for the place and she could have shopped around if she had been provided with the help to do this . |
| 28 | In fact he was waiting for the place , its calm and its unconcern , to make him feel better . |
| 29 | Railwaymen who worked in the area had been so overcome by a feeling of evil that pervaded a particular location that they refused to work the night-shift that involved going near the place in question . |
| 30 | This bore has a very unpleasant reputation and the local people do n't like going near the place at night especially as the rail traffic today has been considerably reduced . |