Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 31 | The boys go to school every day — there 's a tiny place in Clyst St George — but they 're at large all the afternoon , and they 're getting a bit too obstreperous to have about the place . |
| 32 | ‘ You passed the exam to get into the place , did n't you ? |
| 33 | Far from bringing an end to worry , home ownership became a struggle to stay in the place called home . |
| 34 | But you 'll see what Doctor Morris has to say about the place . ’ |
| 35 | Getting older often means a reaching-back to beginnings , and you may yearn to return to the place of your origins , or to be in touch with old friends or relatives far away . |
| 36 | I just wanted to stroll around the place , and take in the night air . ’ |
| 37 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
| 38 | In France the rule of the dukes who sought to govern in the place of Charles VI who , since 1393 , had suffered from the intermittent attacks of a mental illness which was to remain with him until his death in 1422 , appealed to a rising sense of nationalism which tended to favour a vigorous defence of French interests . |
| 39 | Not a battleaxe exactly but I hear she used to stomp around the place in clogs and speak her mind without fear or hesitation . |