Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 2 | I only went into the place twenty minutes ago . ’ |
| 3 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |
| 4 | ‘ It will be easier if you sit down , ’ she suggested , gently feeling for the place where the arrow protruded . |
| 5 | Jenna could still not think of the place as partly hers . |
| 6 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh — well , I suppose I 'll have to spend my time in just looking round the place . ’ |
| 8 | Aberdeenshire is best known as the place to go for salmon fishing , and the Royal Dee is one of the finest salmon streams in Scotland . |
| 9 | Fascinating Gubbio is best known as the place where Saint Francis tamed a ferocious wolf . |
| 10 | there not to smoke in the place |
| 11 | To move Holmes , just click on the place where you want him to go . |
| 12 | The good news was he was expected to show up with a large coke consignment for processing , cutting and distributing ; the bad news was he would now not come near the place . |
| 13 | He said , Just think of the place as four walls . |
| 14 | And , further , that such variation in bourgeois identity , and hence in national modernisms , is largely determined by the place of different classes and class fractions in ( 1 ) the power bloc and ( 2 ) those challenging the power bloc . |
| 15 | Sometimes , it depended on the location of the product ; if the cotton wool is not kept in the place where makeup is removed then tissues tend to be used instead . |
| 16 | Florals are very much back and I just float about the place in them . |
| 17 | Again , we choose Oxford , but only because this is usually given as the place of publication for Oxford University Press books . |
| 18 | As in the case of the infinitive of reaction , this use seems apparently to contradict the hypothesis that the support of the to infinitive is always situated before the place in time ( to be ) occupied by its event ; however , when compared with the use of the -ing form here , the contrasting expressive effects suggest another interpretation : ( 21a ) Reading Gideon on Beet was a new literary experience . |
| 19 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |
| 20 | There was another child , too , a girl , but at some fancy Protestant school up in Dublin , hardly ever seen around the place here . |
| 21 | We managed well enough before you ever came round the place . ’ |
| 22 | If she did any work around the place , there was no evidence of it on the desk . |
| 23 | Remind them that people who actually grow vegetables usually refer to the place where they are grown as vegetable plots , or even vegetable gardens : a bit prosaic maybe but easily understood . |
| 24 | he said that totally run of the place . |
| 25 | She stood sideways to look at herself , leaning towards the mirror , her palm still cupped by the place to trap what lay beneath . |
| 26 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |
| 27 | Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ . |
| 28 | In truth , I did n't want to quit United if it could be avoided , I was totally hooked on the place . |
| 29 | Remarkable singer Louis Elliot snottily refers to the place as ‘ the London Dungeon ’ . |
| 30 | Cleo could not understand why Dauntless was not similarly enchanted by the place . |