Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 2 | As in Belcourt I think to myself : I am seeing what he saw , the same light , the sky , but it fails to work as it should ; it changes nothing , neither enhances nor diminishes my experience of the place . |
| 3 | So I put my mind at the place where the character I 'm playing is , and whatever is making her cry , I work on that and make that affect me . |
| 4 | I put my hand on the place where your heart was meant to be . |
| 5 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 6 | Although the wall foundations had been totally removed it was possible to see their ghost in the place where they had been . |
| 7 | Such an order would impinge upon the operation of the organisation ; it would prevent the International Tin Council from having its Headquarters in the place stipulated by the treaty , and its members would be unable to perform their treaty obligations . |
| 8 | It was the Stewart dynasty which most markedly set its seal on the place ; and which ultimately abandoned it when James VI achieved his goal of becoming King of England and thereafter neglected his Scottish capital . |
| 9 | She and Alan hope that Pat 's blythe spirit will attract all her fans to the place and rekindle the old atmosphere of fun . |
| 10 | Today , she was going to do some heavy-duty cleaning — stamp her seal on the place , and make it her own . |
| 11 | They take their name from the place where in Genesis ‘ Jacob wrestled with the Lord ’ and are a group deeply concerned about ethical , social , and international issues . |
| 12 | His installations , such as Roxy 's , which features decapitated whores with mechanical pelvic movements in a brothel , and The Back Seat Dodge — ‘ 38 , which puts its viewers in the place of voyeurs of a necking couple whose heads are melted into one , deal naturalistically with the seamy and discarded side of social life . |
| 13 | At the same time , she felt a sense of guilt , of disloyalty , that she could even for an instant contemplate the idea of deserting her mother and turning her back on the place she called home . |
| 14 | I know that , I know that erm , the existing committee are drawing up proposals for their refurbishment of the place , erm , obviously to look for , for help towards it . |
| 15 | The judges usually used the church of one of their number for the place of hearing and they often chose places that were towns or centres . |
| 16 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do you think she was killed ? ’ asked Merymose as they made their way from the Place of Healing to Kenamun 's office . |
| 18 | Often their connection with the place is very slight or even non-existent . |
| 19 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |
| 20 | Quite unprompted , Mr Cross related his experience of the place which tallied precisely with Peter Handford 's , especially with regard to the disused quarry on the Bath side of Winsor Hill tunnel . |
| 21 | Norris 's reputation as a man who got things done was dented when the Tories lost a vote on extra primary school places because Norris was away from his seat ( leading to the crack that he ‘ spent a penny and cost the ratepayers £250,000 ’ ) , but he left his mark on the place . |
| 22 | Norris 's reputation as a man who got things done was dented when the Tories lost a vote on extra primary school places because Norris was away from his seat ( leading to the crack that he ‘ spent a penny and cost the ratepayers £250,000 ’ ) , but he left his mark on the place . |
| 23 | His feeling for the place underwent many changes . |
| 24 | He further submitted that the owner of an incorporeal right did not derive his profits from the place where a sub-licensee , who was neither an agent nor joint adventurer , of these rights exploited them itself . |
| 25 | Lothar having tried for three days to do the dividing , said he " could not do so because of his ignorance of the places involved " and so finally left that task to his father . |
| 26 | to see if Whit 's doing one of his tours of the place tomorrow and what time . |
| 27 | He could see inside by standing on his toes , and he shone his torch round the place . |
| 28 | He 'd put his hand to the place , amazed to see it come away bloody . |
| 29 | A man working on a theatrical seminar called ‘ Computers — Whither ? ’ was angry because the ape recordings had thieved some of his points about the place of computer speech in the new drama . |
| 30 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |