Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 2 | ‘ When I first had Sammy he peed all over the blimmin' place . |
| 3 | Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ? |
| 4 | But to be capable of jumping in formation in the dark with full equipment and a bundle of supplies and then landing together in the right place takes some doing . |
| 5 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 6 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 7 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 9 | He di , he 's , I think he 's the only person who never moved out of the same place . |
| 10 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 11 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 13 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 14 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 15 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 16 | ‘ They do n't live together — I mean not in the same place , ’ he added conscientiously . |
| 17 | Madame , with Madame 's Waterford crystal tumbler always placed just at the same place on the bar ; Madame , in position , on guard , ruling the night . |
| 18 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 19 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 20 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 21 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |
| 22 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 23 | Doth a fountain send forth at the same place , Sweet water and bitter ? ’ ' |
| 24 | I say it again to show there is no ill will — ‘ Doth a fountain send forth at the same place , Sweet water and bitter ? ’ ' |
| 25 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 26 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 27 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 28 | Are they there , I think they 've been er moved back to the same place . |
| 29 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 30 | What about for traders I mean , erm obviously you ca n't really c er why you ca n't comment on the fact that er how your father o o can you comment on how your father actually moved here in the first place . |