Example sentences of "at a place " in BNC.
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| 1 | After travelling around the continent to a constellation of cities linked by who her father knew , it was a relief to cross the Channel alone and to arrive at a place where it was not generally such a struggle to make herself understood . |
| 2 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 3 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 4 | Every week we got the New Musical Express and looked to see who was playing , and one week I saw a tiny ad for David Bowie at a place called The Country Club on Haverstock Hill which , as it turned out , was like a garage behind a row of shops . |
| 5 | At a place known in advance only to a few , the motorcade comes to a halt . |
| 6 | Dot knew that her father was at a place that Gloria rarely talked to other people about , but kept like some kind of secret . |
| 7 | I had our fee in my pocket — enough for us to have a magnificent seafood dinner at a place just off the Gran Via , with a couple of bottles of wine . |
| 8 | There had been some appalling bad luck at a place not far from Dunkerque called Furnes . |
| 9 | They have moved on from Elim , the oasis of the twelve springs , and have camped at a place called Rephidim . |
| 10 | Never eat at a place called Mom 's . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , we originally started at a place outside o ’ town , called Glencogh . |
| 12 | One such Roman road led from Londinium westward , crossing the River Thames by a stone bridge — at a place now called Staines — to Exeter , and to a place where the Romans utilised the local waters for their baths , aptly called Bath . |
| 13 | The Churn , whose ancient name was Coryn , rises at a place known as Seven Springs and makes its way down the valley , ultimately to join the Thames . |
| 14 | Stirling 's old troop from No. 8 Commando had been absorbed by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards who were in the desert at a place called Bug Bug , from where Johnny Cooper was recruited . |
| 15 | This emerges from the trees at a place where there was formerly a kiosk , from where an easy stroll leads past a swimming pool to the village . |
| 16 | On learning of this , Achym pursued his steward for three miles to Bury Down , where he did him to death at a place known as Slew Gate . |
| 17 | Two weeks later , at a place called Ballinamuck , the small French army surrendered after a short battle against a numerically superior British force and were taken prisoner . |
| 18 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 19 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |
| 20 | Perhaps over the generations the interaction between a particular cultural context and the energy pattern at a place could build up a strong image or archetype . |
| 21 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 22 | The Israelites were a warrior-race long before the Romans came to Europe to control the barbarians ; a handful of Jewish men , women and children held a whole legion of Roman troops at bay for many months at a place called Massada . |
| 23 | He looked — which Tobie in particular did n't care for — uncommonly like the way he had looked more than two years before at a place called Skylolimne ; and later at another place called Kerasous . |
| 24 | About an hour after we 'd left Sudbury we stopped briefly for under five minutes at a place called Cartier and then went on again . |
| 25 | This book would not be complete without a glance at a place where , more than any other , the ideals of colonial administration and administrative reality appeared to exist in harmony together — those rolling grasslands of the Great Rift Valley , on either side of the border between Kenya and Tanganyika , where lived the people who more than any other fascinated the Europeans who came to East Africa : the Masai . |
| 26 | A mare was found at a place called Vitehall near Kyrkekvarn , bleeding from wounds in her vagina and hind legs . |
| 27 | This year came Ella to Britain , with his three sons , Clymen and Wlenking , and Cissa , in three ships ; landing at a place that is called Clymenshore . |
| 28 | She wanted to go on acting , even at a place like the Manatee , making enough money to live on , to help Paul until his books were famous . |
| 29 | Advice on improving safety measures at a place of work is readily available from the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 30 | The meeting should be at a place far down the beach . |