Example sentences of "[adj] place [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , Marks & Spencer is considered the most sensible place for the middle class to shop . |
| 2 | Until then , he was seen in every glossy place around the coasts of Europe , gambling , sailing his expensive yacht , entertaining the rich and famous and surrounded by beautiful women . ’ |
| 3 | And it was perhaps significant that after such a surrender , chief executive Venables was compelled to leave the comfort of the directors ' box to take his old place in the coaches ' dug-out . |
| 4 | His ambition , of course , is to challenge for his old place in the second row of the Irish scrum . |
| 5 | ‘ Keep the old place in the family , I thought — best thing that could happen if I could n't stay there myself . |
| 6 | Despite her alleged impatience to hear about his experiences during the pay-off , she made no attempt to refer to it again , launching instead into a blow-by-blow account of a film she had seen the previous evening , going on to explain that she loved films , really loved them , that the only place to see them properly was the cinema , that her favourite was a wonderful old place in the centre of town called the Minerva , and what a shame it was that no one went to the cinema any more . |
| 7 | Though no world-beater in the trailblazing Thompson mould , he emerged as Britain 's number one decathlete last summer , taking the bronze medal at the World Student Games in Sheffield and claiming the sole British place for the World Championships in Tokyo , where a hamstring tear forced him to withdraw on the eve of competition . |
| 8 | Lord Archer occupied an equivocal place within the ranks of the Conservative Party . |
| 9 | The lady I hoped to marry was Miss Marjorie Alice Barrett , who was a teacher in the National school of St Luke 's , Maidenhead , which I had attended when the family moved up from Somerset , and from which I gained a free place to the local county school . |
| 10 | Nearing my twelfth birthday , I was fortunate enough to secure a free place at the local secondary school . |
| 11 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 12 | American Independence is offering a free place for the first child , in Lake Tahoe in California , with the second child paying Pounds 169 . |
| 13 | We are always ready to arrange special rates for groups and offer a free place for the organiser with any group of 20 or more . |
| 14 | There are three categories with three prizes in each one of £100 or a free place on the Arvon Foundation writing course of your choice , £50 and £25 . |
| 15 | It was too hot on the roof so she got up and slithered down the ivy into the dark , damp place at the side of the boathouse and went indoors . |
| 16 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 17 | They had offered Dalglish an emotional welcome when he emerged before the game and took an unfamiliar place on the visitors ' bench . |
| 18 | The argument is clearest in its application to the theatre : recall Harsnett 's view that the theatre was a zone of pollution and licence , one capable of being managed by locating it in a designated place on the social periphery . |
| 19 | Therefore the said Justice Depute by the mouth of Duncan McIlvory Dempster of Court adjudged and ordained the above named to be taken upon the twelfth day of this instant month of June being Monday next to the ordinary place of execution and then and there be hanged upon a Gibbet till he die the death and his right hand to cut off and to be affixed to the most conspicuous place of the tollbooth of Killvorow in Ila there to continue till it rot or wear away , and ordained his moveables to be confiscated . |
| 20 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 21 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 22 | ( 7 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any licence-holder contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 23 | After all , our world would be a very different place without the benefits brought by ICI and the chemical industry . |
| 24 | It was the capital of Greece , Athens , that first captivated his mind ; a very different place from the Decapolis of which he had written in ‘ The Song Of The Hellenist ’ , and light years away from the London from which he had fled . |
| 25 | Ideally , you should have a duplicate set in some different place from the first — we could tell you daunting stories of lost notes . |
| 26 | The opposition between automatism and making strange which underlies the one between material and device draws a line in a quite different place from the line that separates form from content . |
| 27 | This means that the original parish registers are usually housed in a different place from the bishop 's transcripts which are kept at the record office of the appropriate ancient diocese . |
| 28 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 29 | Memphis , Tennessee must have been a lively place for the city ‘ s policemen in the early 1970s . |
| 30 | It is a lively place in the evening too . |