Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a 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 | ‘ Frank Strandli ( 21 ) is leaving Leeds to try qualifing for a place in the WC squad . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And the fear was a burden , that he might need to move to a place which would kill his intellectual life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She also said she 'd like the name changed because she did n't fancy living in a place known as a wilderness . ’ |
| 8 | That Lefevre should finish lying in a place like this . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wolves , who are beginning to look for a place in the promotion play-offs , hit back in the second half after Scott Sellars had poached a fine first-half goal . |
| 14 | But what happens if a site gets known as a place where the troublemakers are likely to aim for ? |
| 15 | You could , for nothing , real or imagined , the slightest slight , get crippled in a place like this . |
| 16 | He had been dreading having to look for a place for lunch . |
| 17 | Undeterred by the Challenge 's ‘ toughest ever ’ billing , she immediately decided to apply for a place . |
| 18 | But Dixon , who spent nine years at Stamford Bridge , may have to settle for a place on the subs ' bench as he continues his return from a back injury . |
| 19 | Yet Thomas , 17 , who made a scoring debut as a substitute last week , could have to settle for a place on the bench again as Hearts look to John Robert- son and Ian Ferguson to shoulder the responsibility in attack . |
| 20 | Corporate members , which they want to admit next year alongside names trading with unlimited liability , will have to bid for a place — the price being a levy to Lloyd 's central fund . |
| 21 | I do n't want to live in a place like that . ’ |
| 22 | Lady Selvedge and Mrs Grandison arrived at Victoria Station on the day of the bazaar shortly after noon , and proceeded to look for a place where they might have lunch , or luncheon , as they called it . |
| 23 | Being forced to uproot from a place one loves and has made one 's own . |
| 24 | If you do opt for a place in the countryside however , be certain that no farm livestock is in the vicinity either , as sheep especially may prove an irresistible subject of curiosity for dogs which have not encountered them before , and this can escalate to sheep-worrying . |
| 25 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 26 | After the recent upheaval of leaving her London flat it would be good to get settled in a place here in the town . |
| 27 | ‘ If you 're forced to live in a place you hate , it 's the surest way to break up a marriage . ’ |
| 28 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 29 | When nothing happened , and he realised that he had come to a place without facilities , he retired for another consultation . |
| 30 | I decided to make one last attempt after which I would start looking for a place from where I could obtain a map of the city . |