Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 2 | I have been back in London long enough to know my place . |
| 3 | Does education prepare people to be objects of learning and to accept their place within the status quo , or does it encourage people to question the critical issues of the day and challenge forces that keep them passive ? |
| 4 | While not exactly extravagant , the couple felt it necessary to establish their place in Viennese society by entertaining their friends in lavish style . |
| 5 | For the polytechnics , still struggling to establish their place in the pattern of higher education , the advent of this group of diverse institutions could be seen as ‘ jeopardizing ’ their position , given what the CDP considered an ill-defined interpretation by the DES of ‘ advanced further education ’ . |
| 6 | Further studies are required to establish its place and the dose to be given . |
| 7 | It would be easier , he thinks , at dawn , to fix his gaze steadily on one particular light and then to establish its place in the returning landscape . |
| 8 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 9 | Somehow , everyone seemed to know their place , you were moulded into a person with a very tight grip kept on all staff . |
| 10 | The universities side are all students and in this case they seem to know their place . |
| 11 | Oxford United hope to secure their place in the second round of the Coca Cola Cup tonight . |
| 12 | Many are soldiers of the cross who returned from the Holy Land to find their places filled . |
| 13 | In England , where the increasing public appeal of the Varsity game battles administrators , the wise heads of the RFU made the Students Union the RFU 's fifth division , thus allowing the students to find their place in England 's playing hierarchy . |
| 14 | Those outside the BBC are struggling to find their place and role in the world of profit . |
| 15 | There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang . |
| 16 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 17 | Back in the bad old days of the ‘ tripartite system ’ and the 11-plus , when it was more acceptable to know your place , and upward mobility was not such an unquestionably good idea , life was easier and less personal for teachers because to a much greater extent their values were stably enshrined in the organization and structures of the schools for which they worked . |
| 18 | These also made for easier reference with page turning being easier than unwinding a scroll to find your place . |
| 19 | The search facility has the practical value of making it quicker and simpler to find your place in the recording . |
| 20 | It helps you to find your place . |
| 21 | Because of the demand for seats you are advised to secure your place by responding quickly . |
| 22 | She had no wish to upset her husband , but she knew how much Stephen 's mother hated her and felt that her mother-in-law was trying to usurp her place in the baby 's affections . |
| 23 | But she did not wish to lose her place , hard though her life as a servant was ; such an outcome would be a failure which she could not endure . |
| 24 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 25 | Blackpool , the other club to lose their place in the RFL , will compete in the Alliance Second Division . |
| 26 | A quick blast in the G40 is enough to confirm its place in the junior hot-hatch line up . |
| 27 | The new community care service has enabled the women to claim their places as citizens in their neighbourhood and take a tentative hold of a share in the goodness of ordinary life . |
| 28 | Rose had come to the dance to claim their place as a couple among the people in this loose , Christmas carnival . |
| 29 | Nor would his evidentiary interest require him to examine past doctrine , trying to chart its place in the law as a whole , in the obsessive way judges do . |
| 30 | After the second world war , cricket tried to regain its place in village life but like many other traditions it seems to have died . |