Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.

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1 It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her .
2 Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ .
3 After a little more than a year , she alone had transformed it into a place where the children could play in safety , a stretch of patchy grass with a few well-cared-for roses round its border , and an immensely high wall skirting the garden from one end to the other .
4 Yeah , somebody had told us about a place to go to , asking the bloody earth they were !
5 Love will have raised him to a place far above human strife .
6 She had brought them to a place with snakes , although none had appeared to alarm the children , snakes or secrets .
7 He had put them in a place where the risk would be minimal and he had not pumped the gun the maximum number of times .
8 Blackburn are six points clear of Liverpool in the table and have beaten them to a place in the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals .
9 Yet Alfred had chosen it as a place to die and David had said of his father : ‘ … for him it is one of those special places . ’
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