Example sentences of "it was a [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a logical place to build a city . |
| 2 | It was a Spanish-style place , not overbig , except as to price-range . |
| 3 | It was a magical place to be on a hot Majorcan night . |
| 4 | It was a poor place for bad tempers . |
| 5 | ‘ It just seemed like a ridiculous idea but I thought it was a nice place to go and have a look around , ’ he admits . |
| 6 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 7 | It was a tranquil place , with little to attract the inquisitive outsider . |
| 8 | It was a pleasant place , overlooking the the Thames and Embankment Gardens , spacious and , except for the occasional hooting of the boats , quiet . |
| 9 | It was a pleasant place , Blackheath , a shade too respectable for someone into the tablets of the time , and full of kids — unlike Small — waiting to go to university . |
| 10 | In a depression sheltered from the snow-laden winds , but open to attack on three sides , it was a good place to rest , but a poor place to fight . |
| 11 | But it was a good place to unwind ; the chance of either of them being recognized was remote . |
| 12 | We had come armed with maps and information from birding friends , and this spot was marked with a cross indicating it was a good place for waders . |
| 13 | It was a good place to cover the war . |
| 14 | It was a good place to find carrion because cars used that road occasionally and no doubt caught voles and such creatures in their wheels . |
| 15 | He had heard old men in the workhouse say it was a good place for brave boys , and that there was always work there for those that wanted it . |
| 16 | But it , it was a , it was a good place to work you think ? |
| 17 | When the trucks paused while negotiating a particularly tricky turn , and Rain recognized where they were and that it was a good place to be , they climbed out and took a short route out of the old town and back to the hotel . |
| 18 | I told her it was a good place . ’ |
| 19 | he owned the place you know , the It was a good place . |
| 20 | It was a good place to play : there was always a chance that you were going to transfer to a big West End theatre . |
| 21 | It was a gloomy place , almost a replica of the film set for Brief Encounter . |
| 22 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 23 | Because I was a really shy teenager , and I thought it was a great place to hide ; where you could talk about things and express these feelings that you had , but you could hide a wee bit too . |
| 24 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 25 | It was a stirring place to visit but maybe you would n't want to live there . |
| 26 | It was a dirty place , full of rats and insects but no other living thing . |
| 27 | It was a terrible place , he said . |
| 28 | Oh it was a terrible place to get the ambulance into . |
| 29 | It was a strange place , and as he looked up at it now , he shivered . |
| 30 | What drew his eyes down to them was the fact that it was a strange place for them to be . |