Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 2 | I looked about the place . |
| 3 | I thought of the place as an imaginary island , a sort of French Never Never Land . |
| 4 | I went around the place and the units to find out where everything was . |
| 5 | Within the hour the camera , the film and the physical chemistry became so clear that with a great sense of excitement I hurried to the place where a friend was staying to describe to him in detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure . |
| 6 | A full-length performance , which premiered at The Place Threatre 's Indian Summer Festival in London , which involves young dancers from London and Oxford in some pieces . |
| 7 | The flags which flew above the Place de la Concorde offices of the Federation Internationale du Sport Automobile ( FISA ) in central Paris hung limply in sympathy as Balestre departed his office after thirteen years in power . |
| 8 | ‘ She always had the rubber gloves on as she clucked about the place , ’ recalls Carolyn . |
| 9 | She went to the place where the King had sat . |
| 10 | She went over the place with the country gent estate agent , who wore a check cap , cavalry twill trousers , had a limp handshake and permanently narrowed blue eyes . |
| 11 | She pointed to the place on the open page of the book . |
| 12 | The only member of staff with any authority was Muhammad , a boy of 9 or 10 , who hurried about the place all day in his pyjamas , seeing to the guests ' needs . |
| 13 | Changing direction , she hurried towards the place , and found it to be a large open space , surrounded by little shops , their shutters closed now , but by the legends she could just see painted above their doors they were given over to trade . |
| 14 | Then the pair of them returned to the place of the burnt-out patch and in the relative safety of that refuge huddled there as the bush fire swept down on them . |
| 15 | We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate . |
| 16 | Well erm made models with stones and other rubbish that we found about the place and a whole pile of had still standing . |
| 17 | From the photograph of the crash we had seen that the demolished house was on the corner of a small lane , and although the house had been rebuilt , when we arrived at the place the position was easily identified . |
| 18 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 19 | ‘ Though we knew by the place where he had fallen that it must have been at the very summit just as the path runs down the cliff to Kinghorn Manor . ’ |
| 20 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 21 | When we looked at the place for the first time . |
| 22 | They got to the place where she was staying , a quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 23 | When they got to the Place of Tombs he would find a way of breaking them up . |
| 24 | If they had to stay they moved about the place like shadows . |
| 25 | Only they were men , scattering , seeking cover as they moved towards the place where he was hiding . |
| 26 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 27 | They came to the place where Quiss had seen the inset tracks of the narrow-gauge railway . |
| 28 | Felipe was out of the water and waiting for them as they arrived at the place where the lake quietly lapped the path . |
| 29 | They went to the place where Ross had stood , picking their way across a rubble of brick , concrete and roofing girders . |
| 30 | Though savage rites might be interesting and even valuable , their greatest value was that , in showing the importance of ritual in a society , they pointed towards the place which the higher Christian rituals should have in his own society . |