Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] place [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE lovers parked the car in the darkest place they could find , on the edge of a bank . |
| 2 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 3 | ‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’ |
| 4 | And the reason in the first place I did leave the building trade was my hands was breaking out with in industrial disease , see ? |
| 5 | But if we do n't get into that position in the first place we 'll be out . |