Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is known locally as a popular place for children to play . |
| 2 | She knew perfectly well that he was not very interested in paintings and that he was looking only for a secluded place where he could kiss her . |
| 3 | ‘ There are three tall trees , ’ he said , ‘ in about the right place . |
| 4 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
| 5 | One 's bedroom , I suppose , is one 's little kingdom , especially in a strange place . |
| 6 | Patrick explained it should be stiff enough in the first place in order to stay up , achieved with the help of a product like the one he 'd just used . |
| 7 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 9 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 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 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 12 | Well , why did n't you say so in the first place ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 14 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 18 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |
| 19 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 20 | Critics believe there 'd be no need to build such expensive treatment plants to extract nitrates if farmers were given incentives to use less in the first place . |
| 21 | ( In his reply , Karajan pointed out that as two men had died whilst conducting Tristan und Isolde , both more or less in the same place in the score , it was perhaps worth sponsoring some medical research into the subject . ) |
| 22 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 23 | The causes of the problem of soil erosion lie only in the actual place in which the physical symptoms are felt . |
| 24 | As a safeguard against apostasy ( 17:7 ) , sacrifice might be offered only in the proper place , and to the proper Person . |
| 25 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 26 | We 're dropping it down in a different place , but the reaction will be the same ’ . |
| 27 | His enigmatic features gaze down in every public place of assembly . |
| 28 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 29 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 30 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |