Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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1 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |
2 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
3 | Claudia raced for the towel ; he was still standing in the same place and still looking helpless as she dealt briskly with the spill . |
4 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
5 | Rarely staying in the same place long , as though never satisfied with their accommodation , forever charging about the loch , the problem for anglers is always the same : finding where they lie . |
6 | What had made him take up writing in the first place ? the interviewer asked . |
7 | ‘ In that case , you should never have taken me out sailing in the first place ! ’ |
8 | ‘ Within the main sett , the badgers moved around an awful lot , rarely sleeping in the same place two nights running . ’ |
9 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |