Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selectors feel she has already earned her passage to Barcelona , having last summer finished second in the Europa Cup , ninth in the World Championships , and moved to fifth place in the world all-time 10,000 metres rankings . |
| 2 | CASTLEFORD moved to third place , beating BRADFORD 30–20 — their second win in 14 days over their championship rivals . |
| 3 | The tour took place immediately after the Sterling crisis in 1992 , so visits to such places as the Bundesbank , the German Stock Exchange and Deutsche Book were particularly interesting for the participants . |
| 4 | It was just er you may say destiny brought me here which I never wanted to come to this place . |
| 5 | Why was Ell 's husband authorized to come to this place to carry out tests on the atmosphere and water ? |
| 6 | And , of course , she is a director of Walter Lassally Productions and has to disappear to exotic places occasionally . |
| 7 | The Yorkshireman , riding Milton , had a disastrous second round , after a first round clear , and crashed to 14th place — just one place above his brother Michael . |
| 8 | They rose to fifth place among arms exporters , helped perhaps by the embargoes constraining some competitor nations . |
| 9 | Mattan , who had taken over the yellow jersey from Lillywhite in Leicester on Saturday , started yesterday 33 seconds ahead of Lillywhite but had dropped to fourth place overall by the end of the day . |
| 10 | Poor Owen Rowlands , the first-day leader , had slumped to a 76 and dropped to sixth place . |
| 11 | I do n't know what 's happening to this place . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Try a selection from the Desert Song , topped up with a few choruses of Cool clear Water , Midnight at the Oasis or Caravans which may convince your bird that it has come to wrong place . |
| 13 | Harry had come to this place to meet someone . |
| 14 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
| 15 | You associate that place with a particular set of activities , so that returning to that place reinforces your mental concentration and allows you to work better . |
| 16 | He was reluctant to take the post for two reasons : he felt that the salary was not high enough , and he did not like the idea of being confined to one place even for six months of the year . |
| 17 | You 're confined to this place , ’ he waves his gangly arm around his tiny office in the Lords one Wednesday afternoon , ‘ stuff flies at you from left , right and centre , ’ he snorts , as his forehead furrows . |
| 18 | But Leeds looked set fair for the First Division , climbing to second place by the end of the year . |
| 19 | Leeds had a good start in the new competition , climbing to second place after a 7–1 win over Barnsley in October , in which Price got five of the goals . |
| 20 | The convention , so familiar in the Victorian novel , that ancient things themselves have histories to relate , allows to long-inhabited places and well-used objects an individual being of their own . |
| 21 | There is thus no ground-swell of demand for traffic calming to be applied to those places that would benefit most , existing residential areas where accident rates are higher than in new estates . |
| 22 | He was the latest in a long line of seasoned golfers to contract the yips and as a direct result slumped to 51st place on the Order of Merit . |
| 23 | A distinction can therefore be made between approaches to the study and application of geography that involve the analysis of systems on the one hand and the synthesis of facts and knowledge concerning sets of systems and related to particular places on the other . |
| 24 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 25 | He paddled to 14th place in a race won by Greg Barton of the USA . |
| 26 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 27 | Such patients are not in legal custody by virtue of that section since they are not ‘ required or authorised by or by virtue of this Act to be conveyed to any place or to be kept in custody or detained in a place of safety or at any place to which he is taken under section 42(6) … . ‘ |
| 28 | With exaggerated hype , ‘ Silent Night ’ climbed to second place , but at Christmas it was Cliff No 1 and Bros behind him . |
| 29 | ‘ Navigators travel to many places , hear many things . |
| 30 | 60+ widowed doctor , children grown up , active , cheerful if inclined to melancholy , kindly , non-smoker , amateur Flaubert scholar , likes reading , food , travel to familiar places , old films , has friends , but seeks … |