Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will be easier if you sit down , ’ she suggested , gently feeling for the place where the arrow protruded . |
| 2 | Perhaps working in a place like this was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 3 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 4 | I could n't go on living in a place where I was no use , ’ she spoke with the quietness and desperate authority of someone who had discovered they could give up no more ground and live . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 6 | One felt that men had become brutalised by the preoccupation of not leaving their company and also not delaying in a place where death was raining down . |
| 7 | Staff at Watford Gap say they 're not looking for a place in the annals of high cuisine , just to continue making their customers a nice cup of tea in the morning or a nice cup of tea with their tea . |
| 8 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh — well , I suppose I 'll have to spend my time in just looking round the place . ’ |
| 10 | On 5 August he made a statement in which he said that Spain " was not begging for a place in any international organization and would certainly not accept any such place unless it were commensurate with her historical importance , size of population and her services to peace and culture " , including neutrality during the Second World War . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not only are they moving away , but often they are also moving to a place totally unsuitable for elderly people . |
| 13 | Are you really looking for a place ? ’ |
| 14 | Therefore , he is now going to the place where the satellite is . |
| 15 | Now there was nothing , no way of even getting inside the place . |
| 16 | There were teddy bears and pandas seemingly fighting for a place in an armchair . |
| 17 | Medieval for your holidays then living in a place like this |
| 18 | He was there looking for a place for her — ‘ and he had the children with him ’ . |
| 19 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |