Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] place [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE lovers parked the car in the darkest place they could find , on the edge of a bank . |
| 2 | But if we do n't get into that position in the first place we 'll be out . |
| 3 | Okay so we could do that in the first place we could say one pizza there well we 've got two pizzas but we 'll let's just concentrate on one , share it between six people . |
| 4 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 5 | ‘ In the first place we can never forget the main objective in establishing News on Sunday was not to make money , ’ the Liverpool comrades continued , adding the muddled rider : ‘ It would be lovely to ignore money , but we ca n't . ’ |
| 6 | In the first place we can see a reliance on self-help and often pre-industrial techniques , given new meaning in transformed social circumstances . |
| 7 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 8 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 9 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 10 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 11 | In the first place he must be aware that until 1 January 1752 the old year began on Ladyday , 25 March . |
| 12 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 13 | But with a , it 's just that er if you have er in the wrong place it 'll look a bit untidy with the other things coming up when the bulbs are dying down . |
| 14 | He said that while it was in the wrong place it would have hindered Liam 's breathing . |
| 15 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |
| 16 | Yet in a public place it will not take up any space . |