Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 2 | Each had a cracked and grubby-looking concrete floor lined with a layer of shingle , a concrete shelter for retreat , one or two bare branches to act as a place to take stance ; and in most there was a small pool of water for cleaning and drinking . |
| 3 | As a child the continuous moves had taught Eva to leave behind the place they had been and give herself to the new . |
| 4 | The decision to apply for a place in a residential care home is very often a traumatic one , whether it is a planned or an emergency admission . |
| 5 | No need to go near the place again for another couple of weeks . |
| 6 | Well he 's not gon na want to , he 's not , sha I mean he 's it 's not a meeting to look around the place is it really ? |
| 7 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 8 | With Birmingham needing just a point to qualify for a place in Europe , 32-year-old Thomas replaces Andy Gosney , who is out for a month because of damaged shoulder ligaments . |
| 9 | First , it makes it a criminal offence for anyone in the course of a business to display at a place where consumer deals are likely to be made ( e.g. at a shop or garage ) a notice of an exemption clause which is void by virtue of section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 10 | A fairly common mistake is for people to retire to a place where they once spent an idyllic holiday , perhaps 15 or 20 years previously , with only a minimum of further investigation . |
| 11 | The women grow fruit , vegetables and flowers , and raise flesh to sell in the place Mistral . |
| 12 | ‘ You passed the exam to get into the place , did n't you ? |
| 13 | ‘ Someone with the right name is here and waiting in a special room to get on a big silver bird that flies in the sky to go to a place called Florida , ’ said the Thing . |
| 14 | Far from bringing an end to worry , home ownership became a struggle to stay in the place called home . |
| 15 | It was the custom for men to come to the place only by invitation . |
| 16 | In 1977 I enlisted the help of the Department at Nottingham to apply for a place at St Antony 's , an international studies college at Oxford . |
| 17 | He asked me to try and get him a map but this was a difficult thing to do in a place the size of Fontanellato , where hardly anyone possessed even an atlas of the world . |
| 18 | Though urged by the school to apply for a place at Oxbridge , she chose instead to go to Sussex University , as bright young people often did in the 1970s , because the new universities were considered exciting and innovatory places to study at . |
| 19 | Immediate reactions to this news brought about utter mental confusion , rapid breathing and a tendency to hop about the place , with a risk of injury , diagnosed as a case of galloping boggle . |
| 20 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 21 | The first viewing of a sequence can be done without sound so that the learner has time to think about the place , the people and the situation before having to cope with what they are saying . |