Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants sex , she wants to look around the place and make condescending remarks . |
| 2 | But you 'll see what Doctor Morris has to say about the place . ’ |
| 3 | Getting older often means a reaching-back to beginnings , and you may yearn to return to the place of your origins , or to be in touch with old friends or relatives far away . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'm going to wander round the place , see if there 's anything on . |
| 5 | If you 're going to sneak round the place whenever it suits you , I 'd rather be back in the hotel . |
| 6 | ‘ What does Mr Harvey plan to do with the place ? |
| 7 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
| 8 | ‘ Rachel , it appears the new medical officer has arrived to look over the place . |
| 9 | Ignoring his advice that she stay still , stay still , she started to stumble towards the place where her assassin had fallen . |
| 10 | If a coherent theory of literacy is to be developed , it will have to account for the place of written language , both in relation to the forms of spoken language and also in relation to the communicative functions served by different types of language in different social settings . |
| 11 | Red-hot rocks continued to slide from the place . |
| 12 | In France the rule of the dukes who sought to govern in the place of Charles VI who , since 1393 , had suffered from the intermittent attacks of a mental illness which was to remain with him until his death in 1422 , appealed to a rising sense of nationalism which tended to favour a vigorous defence of French interests . |
| 13 | I just wanted to stroll around the place , and take in the night air . ’ |
| 14 | Once he had eaten and smeared two or three cakes round his face and all over the chair , he wanted to see round the place . |