Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to be capable of jumping in formation in the dark with full equipment and a bundle of supplies and then landing together in the right place takes some doing . |
| 2 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |
| 3 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 4 | Switchboard use it a lot again , to try and get to the bottom of , you know , calls that are going through to the wrong place and things like that . |
| 5 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 6 | When I 'm at a crossroads , if I find myself going back to the same place I had a happy encounter , I deliberately go the other way , so I do n't become a slave to habit . |
| 7 | Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place . |
| 8 | Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ CONGRATULATIONS , ’ said one of my Welsh male colleagues ‘ on getting on to the assisted places scheme . ’ |
| 10 | " Leave things be , Emily , " John replied , speaking softly in the new place . |
| 11 | " The one she 's wearing is getting very tight across the — well — it 's getting tight in the wrong places . |
| 12 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 13 | I would have no difficulty whatever in going on any hustings and waxing eloquent about foul sewage coming up in the wrong places . |
| 14 | That was the idea of the union starting out in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 16 | Particularly in doing a great part like Juliet which we toured in all kinds of places before coming here to the Other Place venue . |
| 17 | The main objectives of policy are , first , to enable the demand to be met in the right places , while preventing sites from springing up in the wrong places ; and , second , to allow caravan sites , where permitted , to be established on a permanent or long-term basis , in order to facilitate the provision of proper services and equipment and to allow the occupants reasonable security of tenure . |