Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.

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1 If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity .
2 Halliday and Kurzhals ( 1976 ) describe the value of specialist techniques for the child who ‘ learns the simple travel techniques of trailing in unfamiliar places , squaring off directly to go to a designated place , using the cross bar techniques when away from other children on a playground and retrieving dropped objects .
3 While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating .
4 You pedal harder to stay in the same place . ’
5 You should be aware of the peculiarities of the local weather before you make your mind up to live in a particular place .
6 ‘ I 'm going to do what I came here to do in the first place .
7 With a mortgage , you have to run very fast to stay in the same place — like the Red queen .
8 Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place .
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