Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | If … if , though , she does n't let you stay with them , then Mother will try to arrange for you some place else . |
| 2 | Every woman who read about what that place is for will understand . |
| 3 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 4 | The Talmud says , ‘ Happy is he who knows his place and stands in his own place , ’ and Leonard Cohen is such a man today . |
| 5 | Little tumuli of oyster shells in the oyster season , and of lobster shells in the lobster season and of broken crockery and faded cabbage leaves in all seasons encroached upon its high places . |
| 6 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 7 | He mourns from his lone place |
| 8 | The whole chapter is ridiculous , for example when Alice asked to sit down she was told there was no room , by the characters already sitting there , yet there was plenty of room for everyone to move round the table several times before returning to their original places . |
| 9 | In 1984 , it became common for bail conditions , following arrests during the strike , to require those charged not to visit any premises or place for the purpose of picketing or demonstrating in connection with the current trade dispute between the NUM and the National Coal Board other than peacefully to picket or demonstrate at their usual place of employment . |
| 10 | The castle dogs crept closer to the flames also , snapping lazily as they squabbled for their accustomed places near the warmth . |
| 11 | Everything caught up with her then , and everything slammed into its proper place . |
| 12 | If the phases were to be overlapped in this way , it would clearly be necessary for the Supplement entries to have already been positioned in their correct places following corresponding OED entries or between unrelated OED entries , as described above . |
| 13 | The 16th was also moved from its 1908 place ( approximating to the present ) to become a longer version ( 250 yards ) of what is played today — i.e. the green being near the present ladies ' 17th tee box . |
| 14 | To Robyn it seemed that critical theory had at last moved to its rightful place , centre-stage , in the theatre of history , and she was ready to play her part in the drama . |
| 15 | FOR two years NATO has been fretting about its new place in the world , if any , after the fading of the Soviet danger , if fade it does . |
| 16 | His ambition , of course , is to challenge for his old place in the second row of the Irish scrum . |
| 17 | Western failure to respond to this will only intensify the power of the radicals in Tehran and worsen the prospects of security in the Gulf if Iran is excluded from what it sees as its rightful place . |
| 18 | On Saturday and Sunday , however , Sheppard will be concentrating on making a good start to the long-course season , and improving upon her seventh place in the sprint freestyle Grand Prix category . |
| 19 | Not sauntering but fanatically rooted to their hallowed places at the end of the ‘ Up ’ main platform in most big stations are to be found the train-spotters , living proof of George Orwell 's observation that the English are a nation of collectors , in this case of train numbers . |
| 20 | An opening round of 76 had destroyed his hopes of improving on his second place behind Ian Woosnam the previous year . |
| 21 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 22 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 23 | ‘ Send away the ark of the God of Israel , ’ the people cry , ‘ and let it return to its own place , that it may not slay us and our people ’ ( 5.11 ) . |
| 24 | County are a tall , muscular team and their football , if not subtle , is effective as demonstrated by their fifth place in the Fourth Division . |
| 25 | The entry would stay in its original place in the book , but we would never refer to it . |
| 26 | It is time that envy was reinstated in its rightful place , as one of the basic data of individual and social psychology . |
| 27 | This process of subdivision is continued until an appropriate level of specificity has been achieved , and all subjects that are required to be represented have been listed in their appropriate places . |
| 28 | Arrangements are being made , we are informed , for those of us who , oddly enough , prefer to have our correspondence marked with its specific place of origin , to deposit our post in a wee box up a close or in a back street away from the main mail collection points . |
| 29 | Everything that could be polished was polished , but nothing was new , all the furniture and equipment settled into their accustomed places as of long habit . |
| 30 | The pathological connotations of the term paranoid-schizoid are more appropriate to the reappearance of certain of these strategies later in life , when they become overextended from their normal place , and therefore develop as aspects of rupture , as when an adult attempts to gain power and control over another person as a substitute for the development of self-discipline . |