Example sentences of "[verb] you [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to tapes of bird calls will help you identify unseen birds too and help direct you to the best place to stand and look for them . |
| 2 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 3 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | For example , being born in a neighbourhood may entitle you to a higher place in the queue for housing provided by that local authority . |
| 5 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 7 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 8 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 9 | Either come aboard ship with us when we have the treasure , and we 'll take you to a safe place ; or stay here on the island . ’ |
| 10 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ We are not taking you to an uncivilised place , Jenna , ’ he murmured . |
| 12 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 13 | How do you in the first place ? |
| 14 | I 'm going to take you to a little place that 'll sell us a bottle of scotch in the back room , and nobody any the wiser . |