Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | This coordination of two developmental events , crucial to the formation of the eye , is achieved in some animals by the approaching eyecup inducing the lens to develop just where it touches the surface , and so the lens develops at the right place . |
| 2 | It stopped at the usual place , and a soldier in a red and gold uniform jumped down . |
| 3 | It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled . |
| 4 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |
| 5 | If you jump , yes you 're looking at the right place , but you 've jumped ahead . |
| 6 | They 're looking at the same place where … ’ |
| 7 | These movements are preprogrammed " ballistic " responses whose velocities are determined by the anticipated distance of travel , ensuring that the eye arrives at the right place after a fixed period of time . |
| 8 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 9 | Of course , it would be much too simple if die links always proved that two objects were made at the same place and time . |
| 10 | Once the cursor has been positioned at the required place on the screen its position can be locked by pressing one of the ‘ ears ’ . |
| 11 | General announcements , group discussions or committees are difficult , the speechreader must look at the right place at the right time . |
| 12 | ‘ Shall we meet at the same place ? |
| 13 | Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it . |
| 14 | Each Land Registry deals with a certain number of counties , and readers are referred to the current edition of Longman 's Directory of Local Authorities in order to ensure that their applications for First Registration or for a dealing arrive at the right place . |
| 15 | Day three was spent at the lowest place on earth — 1400 ft below sea level — the Dead Sea and , after visiting the ancient palace of Herod the Great at Masada , it was time for the obligatory float in the Dead Sea . |
| 16 | Messages would be sent out , up and down the track , summoning song-owners to assemble at the Big Place . |
| 17 | They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons . |
| 18 | ‘ Would you like to eat at the same place ? ’ he asked , taking no risks . |
| 19 | In Part III of Schedule I to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 ( disqualifying offices ) there is inserted at the appropriate place — ’ Any member of the Scottish Further Education Funding Council in receipt of remuneration . ’ |
| 20 | I had them processed at the one-hour place , cost me a fortune but … |
| 21 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 22 | The complication was in saying the newly minted lines at the right side of the mirror whilst arriving at the same place each time . |
| 23 | The first question we asked was , how many of the words spoken by the subject were posted at the correct place in the word lattice ? |
| 24 | And we now have fifty agents of different nationalities , all highly trained in the skills taught at the special place . ’ |
| 25 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 26 | Can can we go back again to when you lived at the other place . |
| 27 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 28 | References given at the relevant place in the text give more detailed accounts of particular subjects . |
| 29 | And it 's one of those slip roads where you off and other people join at the same place . |
| 30 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |