Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know you 're in the right place when the attitude of the locals subtly changes ; as you drive past country kids coming home from school in crisply-pressed uniforms , they shout ‘ white man ’ ! and grin at you . |
| 2 | We 're in the right place I suppose ? |
| 3 | It depends if you 're in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're in the right place , then . |
| 5 | Well you 're in the right place for that . |
| 6 | But again , if you , if you have a little skill and a little experience , you know how to put a story particularly with some visual appeal as opposed to just sound appeal , then there is , if you 're in the right place at the right time you can get in . |
| 7 | Plus , you 're in the best place to know exactly what the modification is that you want . ’ |
| 8 | So if you want to get me fined for talking you 're in the wrong place . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 're in the wrong place , that 's what 's the matter , ’ he said with ominous self-control . |
| 10 | I think you 're in the wrong place there |
| 11 | I think you 're in the wrong place |
| 12 | But the neighbours want the hole moved to where it should have been in the first place . |
| 13 | The indignation of the trade union mounts ; there is the threat of a strike ; Government , which fears a strike more than the nationalised undertaking , sounds the call for retreat ; and amid paeans of praise for everybody 's wisdom in choosing the path of peace the claim is settled — more generously than it could have been in the first place ( Aubrey Jones , cited in Bell 1975 : 10 ) . |
| 14 | So far I 've been very fortunate in that I 've been in the right place at the right time ; buying land and property in a subdued market then selling it on when demand is high . |
| 15 | A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter . |
| 16 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 17 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 18 | The stress may have been in the wrong place . |
| 19 | In the machine shop , without Victor Wilcox to escort her , Robyn was as conspicuous in her high-fashion boots , her cord breeches and her cream-coloured quilted jacket , as some rare animal , a white doe or a unicorn , would have been in the same place . |
| 20 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 21 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 22 | Pink and white lavatera pop up from seed and are left to flourish if they are in the right places . |
| 23 | The working-class Protestants who totter back from the Twelfth field , obviously drunk but still marching behind a ‘ Total Abstinence Lodge ’ banner , will continue to be annoyed by the evangelical ideologues , but will respect the fact that the evangelicals ' hearts are in the right place . |
| 24 | ‘ There are days like that and it is a matter of making sure you are in the right place at the right time . |
| 25 | These are establishing analogues , integrating technologies , understanding uncertainties and making sure the right people are in the right place at the right time . |
| 26 | These Eastern types — you know , Czechs , Ruskies , that lot — do tend to be a bit morose but their hearts are in the right place . ’ |
| 27 | They 're the people who press all the buttons to make sure that Central 's programmes , commercials and trailers are in the right place at the right time for you to watch . |
| 28 | THERE is one question to which you should always answer yes , provided you are in the right place at the right time . |
| 29 | With a timetable to them we are in the best place to do it now cause we 're still learning we have only done three jobs , four now have n't we ? erm the Kathy procedure is definitely needed . |
| 30 | Voluntary organisations er , can do this and are in the best place to undertake this . |