Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consequence his temple was being abandoned to the ravages of Time , who for thousands of shamefaced years had been reluctant to go near the place . |
| 2 | The kid 's not been able to see inside the place . ’ |
| 3 | The boys go to school every day — there 's a tiny place in Clyst St George — but they 're at large all the afternoon , and they 're getting a bit too obstreperous to have about the place . |
| 4 | They were ugly and ungainly , but necessary , Blackadder thought , as they sprang up like the heads of the Hydra , two to solve in the place of one solved . |
| 5 | But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ? |