Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom had referred to the place as ‘ George 's smoking room . |
| 2 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
| 3 | He had come to the place where God was but had not encountered the ineffable reality itself . |
| 4 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 5 | Too much money had gone into the place for that , now . |
| 6 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |
| 7 | She had learned of the place from an encounter some years ago . |
| 8 | I had read about the place in Scum magazine I felt all right in here : a circular , windowless room , tricked out in some lost pimp 's image of a paradisal arbour — tendoned vines , plastic grape-clutches , bamboo ceiling , lagoon lights and canned birdsong . |