Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , I haunted the bloody place , myself ! |
| 2 | At last I found the right place on an island off the north coast . |
| 3 | Ann , made of sterner stuff than I , refused all invitations to have the first cast and eventually , crouching below the skyline , I reached the appointed place . |
| 4 | I thought the old place might have a ghost , you know . |
| 5 | The scene was illuminated by large floodlamps bolted on to the striated walls of the huge cavern which enclosed the whole place . |
| 6 | You sure you got the right place , Antoine ? ’ |
| 7 | It 's amazing what people would do , he said , if you found the right place to push . |
| 8 | She said the extra places would be a lifeline to many of the families in the area who can not find local provision . |
| 9 | So did you find the job before you left the old place ? |
| 10 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 11 | The engineer would have headphones on while Keith was blasting away ; he 'd move the mic around until we found the right place , then he 'd bolt it in the stand where the speaker 's sweet spot was , and there it would stay . |
| 12 | So — hard as it may be for some people to believe — we disinfected the whole place , sloshing the stuff everywhere . |
| 13 | ‘ The bosses went bankrupt , so they sold the whole place , auctioned it off , and threw in the apprentices as well . |
| 14 | . The works and the people had sort of amalgamated and so they used the one place where they had a fitting shop . |
| 15 | They enjoyed the special places reserved for them in the synagogues which were in full view of the congregation . |
| 16 | Mind you the firm that was in there Blue Bag I mean they abused the bloody place they did . |
| 17 | You see , I do n't see why we have to have London and they bought the blessed place . |
| 18 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 19 | But with toilets , a telephone and electricity it seemed the ideal place to settle down . |
| 20 | At the end of the war , because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District , the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors , the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision . |
| 21 | And [ Molla Fenari " s ] standing rose in [ the sultan " s ] estimation and he occupied the highest place therein and consulted with the sultan in all affairs [ of state ] and became as the vezir … |
| 22 | He knew she was ‘ out ’ ; it explained the second place at the tea-table , and the mysterious bell . |
| 23 | But he wanted the living place more than he wanted the shop . |