Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 'm going to wander round the place , see if there 's anything on . |
| 3 | It was the custom for men to come to the place only by invitation . |
| 4 | The women grow fruit , vegetables and flowers , and raise flesh to sell in the place Mistral . |
| 5 | In consequence his temple was being abandoned to the ravages of Time , who for thousands of shamefaced years had been reluctant to go near the place . |
| 6 | No need to go near the place again for another couple of weeks . |
| 7 | But of course she told me that when they came there they were there to look after the place so that it was n't taken over , you know by anybody else , but she had a washing machine , the washing machine come in just after . |
| 8 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 9 | If you 're going to sneak round the place whenever it suits you , I 'd rather be back in the hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ Rachel , it appears the new medical officer has arrived to look over the place . |
| 11 | To look at the place of ‘ Design ’ in the Art department . |
| 12 | He wants sex , she wants to look around the place and make condescending remarks . |
| 13 | Well he 's not gon na want to , he 's not , sha I mean he 's it 's not a meeting to look around the place is it really ? |
| 14 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 15 | Ignoring his advice that she stay still , stay still , she started to stumble towards the place where her assassin had fallen . |
| 16 | As a child the continuous moves had taught Eva to leave behind the place they had been and give herself to the new . |
| 17 | " I tell you I 'll have nothing to do with the place , " said Fiver . |
| 18 | ‘ What does Mr Harvey plan to do with the place ? |
| 19 | I think it was something to do with the place . ’ |
| 20 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |
| 21 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 22 | Once he had eaten and smeared two or three cakes round his face and all over the chair , he wanted to see round the place . |
| 23 | Red-hot rocks continued to slide from the place . |
| 24 | The kid 's not been able to see inside the place . ’ |
| 25 | They were ugly and ungainly , but necessary , Blackadder thought , as they sprang up like the heads of the Hydra , two to solve in the place of one solved . |
| 26 | If a coherent theory of literacy is to be developed , it will have to account for the place of written language , both in relation to the forms of spoken language and also in relation to the communicative functions served by different types of language in different social settings . |
| 27 | Immediate reactions to this news brought about utter mental confusion , rapid breathing and a tendency to hop about the place , with a risk of injury , diagnosed as a case of galloping boggle . |
| 28 | Perhaps Hambury was about to turn into the place Biff had originally described to them back at the workhouse . |
| 29 | there not to smoke in the place |
| 30 | The first viewing of a sequence can be done without sound so that the learner has time to think about the place , the people and the situation before having to cope with what they are saying . |