Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] place at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | this has got costs back on to a sensible basis , and he is convinced that this assures the Company of its place at the forefront of the european industry . |
| 2 | If you live outside reasonable travelling distance of the campus , you will have been sent details concerning accommodation at the time of confirmation of your place at the University . |
| 3 | She rose quietly from her place at the side of the table and went out of the room . |
| 4 | Even from her place at the desk she could read the gold lettering on the frame . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 6 | In his place at the Treasury came the younger , almost reckless , figure of Nigel Lawson , an able former financial journalist and apparently still a nominal enthusiast for monetarism . |
| 7 | She heard him being pushed from his place at the keyhole . |
| 8 | He rose , and restored his chair to its place at the neighbouring table . |
| 9 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 10 | A boiled egg and two slices of buttered bread had been laid out at his place at the table . |
| 11 | ‘ Punish you ? ’ she raised one eyebrow at him as she put a plate of food at his place at the table . |
| 12 | In Suger s case , this power was given sharper focus by its place at the apex of the terrestrial hierarchy ; for , as he had learned from the presumed patron of his monastery , Pseudo-Dionysius , this was the proper ordering of earthly political authority . |