Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the horse is dealt with brusquely ; suddenly brought into a place of noise , shouting people , and strange activity ; then restrained and tied so tightly that it is even more anxious ; it will be frightened and expect to be hurt , and behave accordingly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The biggest problem with the diabetic clinic is that time tends to be very limited and perhaps it is best regarded as a place for assessment and the identification of problems , with a little time for education . |
| 4 | Which it is n't the easiest thing , when you 've just moved into a place , is it ? |
| 5 | The Room , which is no longer used as a place for readers to study in , houses some 200,000 of the Library 's oldest books . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Fascinating Gubbio is best known as the place where Saint Francis tamed a ferocious wolf . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not exactly dressed for a place like this ! ’ |
| 11 | Ever heard of a place called Trafalgar ? ’ |
| 12 | Tell me , have you ever heard of a place called Koraloona ? ’ |
| 13 | Have you ever heard of a place called Ribnica ? ’ |
| 14 | Again , we choose Oxford , but only because this is usually given as the place of publication for Oxford University Press books . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was another child , too , a girl , but at some fancy Protestant school up in Dublin , hardly ever seen around the place here . |
| 17 | Neneh Cherry , daughter of a restless soul , has always dreamt of a place called home , ‘ that happy little space where I can be free ’ . |
| 18 | he said that totally run of the place . |
| 19 | She stood sideways to look at herself , leaning towards the mirror , her palm still cupped by the place to trap what lay beneath . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | In truth , I did n't want to quit United if it could be avoided , I was totally hooked on the place . |
| 22 | Jordi Burillo , who delighted his home-town audience in Barcelona on Thursday by conquering Boris Becker in the Spanish Open , quickly returned to a place on the sidelines when he went down to Horst Skoff later the same day . |
| 23 | Provided that the proprietor shall not be entitled to the protection of this subsection unless , at the time when the property in question was brought to the hotel , a copy of the notice set out in the schedule to this Act printed in plain type was conspicuously displayed in a place where it could conveniently be read by his guests at or near the reception office or desk or , where there is no reception office or desk , at or near the main entrance to the hotel . |
| 24 | There was a torn squab cushion on the top and it was traditionally used as a place to dump coats , scarves and gloves . |
| 25 | Cleo could not understand why Dauntless was not similarly enchanted by the place . |
| 26 | These were mainly performed at the places where parts of the body of Osiris were reputed to have been found or buried , which are recorded in an inscription at the late temple of Hathor at Dendera — at Athribis ( heart ) , Busiris ( backbone ) , Memphis ( head ) , Abydos ( head ) and so on , some duplication being apparent . |
| 27 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 28 | It is sometimes claimed that predator assemblages are of little use in palaeoecological interpretation because of this bias , and because they take prey from areas far removed from the place where the prey remains are deposited by the predator . |
| 29 | She wondered what had been the use of all that trying to get clean on the train if they were now lost in a place where nobody would ever find them , not even when something happened and they disappeared for ever . |
| 30 | Martin Pipe 's decent handicapper Vagog could well run into a place . |