Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ? |
| 2 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 3 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 5 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 6 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 7 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 8 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 9 | Madame , with Madame 's Waterford crystal tumbler always placed just at the same place on the bar ; Madame , in position , on guard , ruling the night . |
| 10 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 11 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 12 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 13 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 14 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 15 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 16 | Are they there , I think they 've been er moved back to the same place . |
| 17 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 18 | What about for traders I mean , erm obviously you ca n't really c er why you ca n't comment on the fact that er how your father o o can you comment on how your father actually moved here in the first place . |
| 19 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 20 | They seem to have moved firstly to the coastal places of the west , and then inland along the river valleys — natural enough for groups who rowed across the North Sea and the Channel in open shallow-draught boats . |
| 21 | As a safeguard against apostasy ( 17:7 ) , sacrifice might be offered only in the proper place , and to the proper Person . |
| 22 | But I 've copied over to the same place , what it seems to be doing provided the cell pointed out , you 're looking at the top left . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 24 | All of this has been enacted and realised and completed in Jesus himself , and the meaning of sin , so far as we are concerned , is only really opened up at the very place where it is borne and done away with . |
| 25 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 26 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 27 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 28 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 29 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 30 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |