Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Legion would return you to the place at which they had taken charge of you . |
| 32 | ‘ Point is , to do something about the place you need finance , right ? |
| 33 | When you visit a club , why not ask the views of people who actually know something about the place and not some ageing promoter who only visits it once a month ? |
| 34 | Had she locked herself in a place of comparative safety ? |
| 35 | Love will have raised him to a place far above human strife . |
| 36 | He deliberately kept the Lamonts in a separate compartment , their home providing him with a place to refuel in company he enjoyed and in countryside he loved . |
| 37 | Tell her about the places and things you have seen . |
| 38 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 39 | No oh no they or they would dump it in a place where nobody would see it you see . |
| 40 | When you have finished studying the web-building of your spider , release it in a place similar to that in which it was found . |
| 41 | ‘ You have to be able to put yourself in the place of the athlete and work out what they need ’ , she says . |
| 42 | I always ask shareware users to put themselves in the place of the author . |
| 43 | They can also include questions which ask pupils to put themselves in the place of some person in the past . |
| 44 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 45 | In fact , really and truly , unless you live in the town centre , wherever that may be , there really is no point in even contemplating stealing anything from the place . |
| 46 | Similarly there is no liability if a railway company , acting upon A 's directions , carries B's goods , honestly believing that A has B's authority to give such directions or , of course , where a finder removes them to a place of safety . |
| 47 | She had brought them to a place with snakes , although none had appeared to alarm the children , snakes or secrets . |
| 48 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 49 | I 'll take you to the place . |
| 50 | Just the thought of having her around the place made him irritable . |
| 51 | Boy was like that , he was hoping that somebody would take him to the place where everybody else was . |
| 52 | She had been secure , certain of her facts , her life built on the reality of the past , and now things were all tilted , wavering , with a man she did not know issuing orders that would take her towards a place she had no desire to visit . |
| 53 | Personally , I have a basic level of awareness which I raise if I find myself in a place or situation which could prove a problem . |
| 54 | " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for . |
| 55 | He asked her about the place so much like the valley , the place where she 'd been born . |
| 56 | Healey backed Crossman and pointed out that they would be ‘ blind men leading the blind if they had to go in there knowing nothing about the place ’ . |
| 57 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 58 | " Women can give attention to detail and because we were not married we used to devote ourselves to the place . |
| 59 | It brought you to the place and then |
| 60 | But staff say it would be hypocritical to welcome her to a place where foxes injured by hounds are nursed back to health . |