Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to work in a place where I could n't wear my fur coat . |
| 2 | They can last for anything between a weekend and three weeks and they involve journeying to a place ( sometimes a large house has been rented for the time ; sometimes a college ) where you will eat , talk , be taught , sleep , live writing in a totally concentrated way for the length of the course . |
| 3 | Such an expectation would be unreasonable with container ships or with general cargo vessels , where hundreds of bills of lading may have to be issued , and the issuance of final documentation is often possible only after the vessel has departed from the place of shipment . |
| 4 | ‘ Frank Strandli ( 21 ) is leaving Leeds to try qualifing for a place in the WC squad . |
| 5 | And who has seen to the place since ? ’ |
| 6 | Railwaymen who worked in the area had been so overcome by a feeling of evil that pervaded a particular location that they refused to work the night-shift that involved going near the place in question . |
| 7 | You can use a compass if you want to walk to a place which is marked on the map but which you ca n't see . |
| 8 | He wants sex , she wants to look around the place and make condescending remarks . |
| 9 | Our selection procedure has resulted in no places being offered to students with profound or multiple disabilities or severe challenging behaviour . |
| 10 | And the fear was a burden , that he might need to move to a place which would kill his intellectual life . |
| 11 | But you 'll see what Doctor Morris has to say about the place . ’ |
| 12 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 13 | She also said she 'd like the name changed because she did n't fancy living in a place known as a wilderness . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 15 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 16 | That Lefevre should finish lying in a place like this . |
| 17 | Getting older often means a reaching-back to beginnings , and you may yearn to return to the place of your origins , or to be in touch with old friends or relatives far away . |
| 18 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 'm going to wander round the place , see if there 's anything on . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't mind looking after the place for a few days , do you ? ’ |
| 21 | This bore has a very unpleasant reputation and the local people do n't like going near the place at night especially as the rail traffic today has been considerably reduced . |
| 22 | If you 're going to sneak round the place whenever it suits you , I 'd rather be back in the hotel . |
| 23 | ‘ What does Mr Harvey plan to do with the place ? |
| 24 | Confronting the fact from the other side is Alex Macdonald , the Airdrie manager whose team seem bent on a place in the Guinness Book of Records with 100 bookings in a season . |
| 25 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 26 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
| 27 | Much controversy surrounded the finalization of this part of the Act centred on the question whether all 3–5 year olds should become entitled to a place in a nursery or pre-school . |
| 28 | Oh well , they got staying on the place and , oh that money never , er was never asked for money for . |
| 29 | They get trapped in a place and there , it 's filling with water and they , they 've got ta get them , they got ta , they gon na drown because it 's filling with water and they got ta get out , get out before the room fills with water completely . |
| 30 | Why did n't the word standard get put in the place of quality we can have standard assurance as opposed to quality assurance ? |