Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They won one , in South Paddington , and cost official Conservative candidates the seat in several more , often driving them into third place . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a good thing we 've booked you into this place , ’ Michael continued . |
| 5 | This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 6 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 7 | But she was also aware that no matter how she felt , her family would never allow her to relegate them to second place . |
| 8 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 10 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 11 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 12 | A good showing by Lyles put them into second place on 233 points while Reyburns , one of the fancied teams , did not live up to expectations and finished third on 210 points . |
| 13 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 14 | I ca n't bear to visit you in that place . |
| 15 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 16 | Do n't just pour it in one place . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 19 | Francis insisted that taking Wednesday into Europe this season , after leading them to third place behind Leeds and Manchester United in April , was his career high point — despite scoring the winner in a European Cup final . |
| 20 | Got them into this place . |
| 21 | ‘ Just get me to this place and then I can phone a garage . |
| 22 | seemed to be holding them from better place from the springs we could n't find are n't they ? |
| 23 | That keeps them in second place . |
| 24 | I 'd like to wish you well , Hazel , but there 's no good to wish you in this place . |
| 25 | This was an attitude which , long afterwards , was to put him in second place to Phan Boi Chau in the opinion of the Communist Party which , although stressing the patriotism of both men , especially Phan Boi Chau , declared that Phan Chu Trinh had mistaken the principal enemy . |
| 26 | It takes him to tenth place in the Ryder Cup table and the farming philanthropists will also get their reward . |
| 27 | Over the same period America 's reserves have doubled , to $74 billion , to put it in second place ; back in 1988 it was in only sixth place . |
| 28 | In this way the plant provides the larva with somewhere to live and feed , but keeps it in one place where it can not damage the leaves , buds or other important parts of the plant . |
| 29 | We all know that we exist in three dimensions — our bodies occupy a certain volume , and we can move it from one place to another . |
| 30 | it 's getting it from one place to the next |