Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [det] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can make his birds fly like an arrow — in a straight line , in single file — or can direct them to any place he likes , in any formation . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a good thing we 've booked you into this place , ’ Michael continued . |
| 3 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 4 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 6 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 7 | I ca n't bear to visit you in that place . |
| 8 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 9 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 10 | Got them into this place . |
| 11 | Do you still believe anybody in that place ? |
| 12 | ‘ Just get me to this place and then I can phone a garage . |
| 13 | I 'd like to wish you well , Hazel , but there 's no good to wish you in this place . |
| 14 | Well you said you wo ordered one for another place . |
| 15 | I do n't think Andy ever meant to do anything with this place . |
| 16 | Everything was peaceful — everything but the man who 'd brought her to this place . |
| 17 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 18 | His face seemed familiar somehow , and yet I could n't recall seeing him in this place before . |
| 19 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 20 | Lee Marvin used to do something similar , announcing , ‘ I 'm a coward and I bet anybody in this place can beat me ’ . |
| 21 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
| 22 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 23 | Erm if I knew the pages in the report as well as I try to know my bible I could point you to another place Moderator where er |
| 24 | I thought he must have left it in that place round the point , Halfway House . |
| 25 | Take me from this place . |
| 26 | Now he remembered someone telling him about this place . |
| 27 | And then , unexpectedly , she was assailed by the strangest feeling that a greater force than Aunt Bertha had sent her to this place . |
| 28 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 29 | I never see anyone from this place there . ’ |
| 30 | The gradient of a curve is the gradient of tangent , so we can draw a tangent where you wanted it at that place . |