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 . |