Example sentences of "[pos pn] place at the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went upstairs , had a wash then took my place at the dining table . |
| 2 | They fear that its place at the cutting edge of environmental radicalism has been taking by groups such as Earth First . |
| 3 | Cycle triumph : The bicycle voted Best Bike of 1993 at the Harrogate Cycle Fair has taken its place at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum , Cultra , alongside some of its illustrious predecessors . |
| 4 | The round table talks resumed in Belfast on Sept. 29 and the following day the DUP resumed its place at the negotiating table . |
| 5 | On the closed-circuit monitors , he saw the technicians taking their places at the instrument banks . |
| 6 | The Council men and women came in and took their places at the Star Table . |
| 7 | Announcing that " the time for negotiation has arrived " , de Klerk invited representative black leaders to " walk through the open door " and take their place at the negotiating table " together with the government and other leaders who have important power bases inside and outside Parliament " . |
| 8 | Although the recruiter had obviously bathed , he still exuded the faint mustiness of the habitual opium smoker as he pressed past Duclos to take his place at the breakfast table . |
| 9 | As he was only seventh on the Oxford roll in 1758 , his last year , his place at the sister foundation ( New College , Oxford ) was by no means assured . |
| 10 | John secured his place at the world finals in New York in August by beating 33 other Scottish Scrabble fanatics at an elimination contest in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | But once the horses were unsaddled , rubbed down and hobbled , he spread a blanket on the hard ground and took his place at the evening meal with the others . |
| 12 | Sid finished his cigarette and took his place at the Bren gun . |
| 13 | That evening , Scott took his place at the news desk and ran an eye over his script . |
| 14 | It began one morning at breakfast in the days when I was still a bachelor and Tristan and I were taking our places at the mahogany dining table . |