Example sentences of "at the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | DANCE / Taking a rain check : Judith Mackrell on Burrows and Smith at The Place , and The Royal Ballet 's La Bayadere |
| 2 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
| 3 | He could n't answer , but the second-in-command at the place appeared and said ‘ Mrs Desai , I have some work for you . ’ |
| 4 | A constant bane of the conference organiser is arriving at a venue to load and unload a dozen mini computers , audio-visual equipment , tape recorders , packets of paper and the like , six or eight times onto trolleys , carrying them up or down steps , grazing elbows squeezing into lifts or staggering miles under their weight — all before arriving at the place where they have to be set up . |
| 5 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 6 | Miss Danziger waited at the place known as Lakeside at St Lund , where small craft poached alongside the road . |
| 7 | THE ROAD TO ELLING CHANGED CHARACTER dramatically at the place where it met the river and altered its course to follow that of the river . |
| 8 | It was an improvement on last week when he arrived at the place , though . |
| 9 | Presently they were ready at the place of meeting , and the gate was opened which was nearest the gardens where the Moors had entered , without order ; and they fell fiercely upon them , smiting and slaying . |
| 10 | As you look at the place you have chosen , daylight turns to dusk ; the colours become muted and the shadows lengthen . |
| 11 | A full-length performance , which premiered at The Place Threatre 's Indian Summer Festival in London , which involves young dancers from London and Oxford in some pieces . |
| 12 | The following documents , which are available for inspection during normal business hours at the registered office of the Company on any weekday ( Saturdays and public holidays excluded ) from the date of this Notice until the date of the Annual General Meeting , will also be available for inspection at the place of the Annual General Meeting from 12.30 pm on the day of the Meeting until the conclusion of the Meeting : |
| 13 | Poole remembered that at the place of execution Ann Rice , ‘ almost lifeless ’ , was brought at John Walford 's request from the back of an enormous crowd . |
| 14 | Fishermen of the time from Lough Neagh almost certainly travelled up the Bann to the crossing-point at the place where Portadown now stands . |
| 15 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |
| 16 | The silent watcher stared through the darkness at the place where Corbett had settled down to sleep . |
| 17 | But he was so moved by the film that he launched a campaign to raise the money at the place where he worked . |
| 18 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 19 | At the place where the head distorted the linen into a spherical bulge , the crisp whiteness was marred by an ugly dark red stain . |
| 20 | His mother , who had taken one look at the place when she first returned to France , had been firm . |
| 21 | They would emphasise the involvement of trade unions at the place of work and the trade union movement as a whole at the national political level . |
| 22 | Thence northwards to Mina 's land , so eastward to the stream and over it at the place called Ufa 's ford , thence to the place called Lagness , thence to Laxley , and so to the place called Balsham , thence to the bridge at Ellridge , and thus northwards besides the marshy places , over this to the stream called ( Aldingbourne Rife ) and thence east to Waermund 's enclosure , thence to Wador 's barrow from that place to the fishpond , and from there to ( Ryebank Rife ) , and so the line runs to the sea … |
| 23 | Earlier , he had told a packed audience at the French Automobile Club : at the Place de la Concorede : ‘ I do n't know if I will stand before you all again — but you never know , do you ? ’ |
| 24 | If on the other hand you have access to a colour television set at the place where you are staying , you may be able to use this instead , provided that it can be tuned to your camcorder 's signal output and assuming that it is designed for use on the same television standard as the camcorder , eg UK PAL for machines sold in Great Britain ( see page 153 ) . |
| 25 | It was not an uncommon practice in the Middle Ages , where the corpses of the rich and powerful were concerned , to remove one or more of the organs — usually the heart — for burial at the place of death , such as the monastery which had cared for the person in their infirmary during the final illness . |
| 26 | To prevent putrefaction the soft organs were removed via an incision in the trunk , and then buried either at the place of death or separately with the body . |
| 27 | The skeleton was then shipped home for burial and the remainder deposited at the place of death . |
| 28 | Look at the place . |
| 29 | She supposed that she ought to spend more time at the place , but was always thankful when she was once again on the road back to London . |
| 30 | Sunset and sunrise are to be taken at the place where the alleged offences were committed . |