Example sentences of "[vb pp] a place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South Wales player , who yesterday reached the final of the BWTA tournament at Queen 's Club , has won a place at Oxford and starts a degree course in psychology and sociology at St Hilda 's College in September , 1991 . |
| 2 | The 18-year-old from Dinas Powys , currently Britain 's best young player , learned this week that she has won a place at St Hilda 's College for September 1991 to study physiology and psychology . |
| 3 | As well as £2,000 , and a trophy presented by the Duchess of Kent , he has won a place in the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year heats in Brussels in June . |
| 4 | A factory worker with just two O Levels to his name has won a place to study at Oxford . |
| 5 | Lisa Keenan , 17 , from Oxton has won a place at the University of Northumbria , while Lisa Hudson , 18 , from Claughton will study at the Preston-based University of Central Lancashire . |
| 6 | Wells done BOWLS : John Wells , of Hartlepool , has won a place in the prestigious under-25s national indoor bowls championships to be held at Nottingham on February 22–23 . |
| 7 | Among those who received awards yesterday was Claire Metcalfe , 15 , of Thornaby , who has been practicing judo since she was five and has now won a place in the national team . |
| 8 | A TALENTED North-East teenager has won a place at the prestigious National Youth Theatre . |
| 9 | Now Affleck , who turned pro as a teenager , has won a place on next year 's European Tour following his outstanding season as he finished top of the European Challenge Tour , winning £39,769 official prize money . |
| 10 | Keith Bailey , 18 , from Oxton , Birkenhead , has won a place in the national final of the Rotary Club Inventor of the Year competition at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre on November 14 . |
| 11 | After all , when he starred as champion boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , he put on 60lbs and is reputed to have done enough training to have earned a place in the top twenty world middleweight rankings . |
| 12 | Together to-day , taking disaster by the throat and turning it into victory , they have surely earned a place of honour that will be secure as long as men talk , or read or think of horses . |
| 13 | What started as ‘ just a bit of fun ’ has now earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 14 | Andrew , who has learning difficulties , is a keen violinist and has earned a place in Banks Brass Band . |
| 15 | While the Christian communities occupied a place on the edges of society and kept aloof from most of other people 's festivities , their own sacred time was well enough defined . |
| 16 | Because hypotheses , construed as provisional descriptions of reality , had occupied a place in physics , Copernicus , Kepler , and Galileo transgressed traditional subject boundaries by allowing an astronomical hypothesis this representational role . |
| 17 | REBECCA FOSTER , from Southport , has claimed a place in the Volkswagen National Division Five Tennis final at Telford . |
| 18 | Mime has never enjoyed a place on centre stage , it lives in the shadows of fringe theatre and the Big Top . |
| 19 | Even when she has selected a place and a time , the female cuckoo has still got the problem of introducing her egg into the host 's nest in such a way that it wo n't be rejected . |
| 20 | I therefore took with us Ergay , one of our zabanias , selected a place to sleep under an overhanging rock and sent him back to camp to bring Birru in the evening with a mule , blankets and food . |
| 21 | Given the commonality of objectives with EFAH and encouraged by the Commission , HCIMA has accepted a place on the Board of Governors of the Foundation and has begun work on the development of a pan-European accreditation system . |
| 22 | Henry Hyndman , Karl Marx 's first English translator , narrowly missed a place in the Cambridge XI , and some accounts credit disappointment at this exclusion for his subsequent loathing of the ruling class . |
| 23 | Neither Ari or Nathan had ever seen a place like it . |
| 24 | Carrara , for his part , had secured a place in the final by virtue of a rather one-sided 6–0 6–3 victory over Frome 's Chris Davis . |
| 25 | We were travelling steerage and had secured a place on a bench on a port deck . |
| 26 | What was more I had secured a place for Vicky in the chorus . |
| 27 | There are examples of people who , through the strength of their commitments and the power of their attention to detail , have secured a place in the policy-making process . |
| 28 | The theft did not interfere with the good relations between the two men , however , and Gould , having secured a place on Sturt 's forthcoming expedition to South Australia , set off towards the Liverpool Plains , north of Sydney . |
| 29 | The president , the country 's ruler for 20 years and now in his fifth term of office , has already secured a place in Indonesian history as the father of the nation 's development . |
| 30 | The Polytechnic usually receives hundreds of phone calls from students trying to find out if they 've secured a place at college . |