Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the same place " in BNC.

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1 Although the materials have been changing the industry has stayed in the same places .
2 In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place .
3 But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star .
4 ‘ Would you like to eat at the same place ? ’ he asked , taking no risks .
5 For it to be plausible , continual adaptation must be necessary for the maintenance of the life history , just as the Red Queen had to keep running to stay in the same place .
6 There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say .
7 Therefore if we do n't actually want to live in the same place as the residents , which I certainly would n't want to do , right .
8 It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid .
9 Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route .
10 But Stripey rarely chose to sleep in the same place two nights running .
11 Several families who lived in the same settlement decided to leave as a result of her behaviour , and others insisted that they would never go to live in the same place as her .
12 This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion .
13 Seb rode to where Noah Plunkett still sat on his sheepskin ‘ throne ’ , giving the impression he had remained in the same place since the wedding party began .
14 I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap .
15 An instant later she recalled the forty-year-old lady , who twenty-five years earlier had stood in the same place and had waved at her father in the same way .
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