Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 2 | The implements available here for cleaning were as many and as varied in colour and smell as the places which I had to clean . |
| 3 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
| 4 | To be absolutely sure she followed one of them and came to the place where they curved round in front of a tree and retreated . |
| 5 | It buys weapons while Iraqi arms purchases are embargoed , and while UN inspectors prowl the Iraqi desert destroying chemical weapons and looking for the places where Mr Hussein may still be trying to build nuclear ones . |
| 6 | I suggested we park the motor cycle and walk from the place des Vosges . |
| 7 | You can stay here and look after the place whilst we 're gone . |
| 8 | Come and look at the place , William had said , it 's like everyone 's dream of a Victorian childhood . |
| 9 | He 'll learn there 's more to being a man than hunting and lolling about the place . |
| 10 | The end of the arcade was full of women , all of them whispering and staring towards the place where Zurachina 's servants had set down her chair . |
| 11 | She looked and looked at the place where the fire had been , searching for the future , but could only see ashes . |
| 12 | He walked round the cold rooms and looked at the place with a stranger 's eyes . |
| 13 | The previous one had never been clean before the next one arrived ; they had had dummies shoved in their mouths to keep them quiet until they were four or five ; and they crawled , ran and fell around the place — filthy , whining and hungry — until Onyx was forced to give them some of the attention they needed . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's sweet , Changez , it 's true , the way he grunts with satisfaction as he reads , and bumbles around the place asking me if I want some keema . |
| 15 | ‘ And today we will leave the hills behind , and go to the places where men dwell . ’ |
| 16 | When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street . |
| 17 | Stuart pointed just ahead of them but as he spoke , a little white Mini sped past them and slid into the place he had spotted . |