Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [det] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 2 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 3 | Nails was very unlikely to have left the car in the same place ; he never did , it was too inconvenient . |
| 4 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 5 | He fired the Lee Enfield again ; Rory was getting the hang of this now , and aimed the shotgun at the same place and fired it , almost before the noise of Fergus 's shot had stopped echoing . |
| 6 | The second is that two normal observers viewing the same object or scene from the same place will ‘ see ’ the same thing . |
| 7 | A common response to the claim that I am making about observation , supported by the kinds of examples I have utilized , is that observers viewing the same scene from the same place see the same thing but interpret what they see differently . |
| 8 | Apparently they even put the barricade in the same place |
| 9 | Emma Brodie died in Frenchgate shopping centre in Doncaster after being stabbed through the heart with a carving knife by Carol Barratt , 24 , who had attacked another child in the same place weeks earlier . |
| 10 | The home can , therefore , be seen as a potentially significant source of ontological security , even if large numbers of people finding such security in the same place at the same time can itself lead to much anxiety . |
| 11 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
| 12 | Do this until you have all uniform lists , that is , until each list contains words which all contain the same sound in the same place . |
| 13 | A year later there was a new Globe in the same place . |
| 14 | Start the keys and paper at rest at the same place — the same height above the Moon 's surface — and they arrive together at the ground at the same time . |
| 15 | But you see the important thing about this scene is not what is taking place there it 's not really that Pilate is standing in , in the trial as the judge of Jesus , it 's not that Pilate has i , within his hands the power of life and death for Jesus , that 's not the important issue , that 's not the real significance of this incident , the real significance is that every one of us at some time or other stand in the same place that Pilate stood . |
| 16 | Thunder , fire , earthquake ad lightning herald God 's presence and demonstrate his power ( 20:20 explains why ; compare Elijah 's experience in the same place — 1 Kings 19:8ff. — and the contrast drawn in Hebrews 12:18–25 ) . |
| 17 | Two normal observers viewing the same object from the same place under the same physical circumstances do not necessarily have identical visual experiences , even though the images on their respective retinas may be virtually identical . |
| 18 | Competition for the few places available is keen and a high academic standard is required . |
| 19 | Beckett 's characters ‘ begin and end their fictional journey at the same place , in the same condition , and without having learned , discovered , or acquired the least knowledge about themselves and the world in which they exist ’ ( Federman 1965 : 4 ) . |
| 20 | Animal experiments showed that these movements could be elicited repeatedly by stimulation at the same place . |
| 21 | Sir Robert Lee , who was also stated to have property in the selfsame places was a prominent local figure . |
| 22 | The roads , notwithstanding King Charles was pleased to say the county of Norfolk was only fit to be cut into roads for the rest of his kingdom are unpardonably bad ; narrow shaded and never mended ; they are numerous however especially the bridle-roads ; so that a traveller on horseback has generally the choice of two or three ways of nearly equal length to the same place … |
| 23 | The cracks recur each year in the same places , the wedges thicken annually , and the ground between buckles into irregular domes , ridges , or pancakes with raised edges . |
| 24 | ‘ We had a very successful festival last year in the same place and many local people came and enjoyed themselves . |
| 25 | Bringing a copy of this picture to the instrument for comparison only served to show how right these first impressions were ( illus.2 ) : there were the same keys , the characteristically carved end-blocks , the lockboard batten and the nicely rounded crown on the spine adjacent , the colour of the veneer , the same stop knob in the same place — and leaning against this harpsichord the most revered of all ‘ English ’ composers , Handel himself ! |
| 26 | Several days ago I identified my mother and little brother in the same place . |
| 27 | As Gabriel worked on the top of the ricks , he suddenly remembered that , eight months before , he had been fighting against fire in the same place as desperately as he was fighting against water now — and for love of the same woman , who did not love him . |
| 28 | The fact that these things happen over time in the same place matters , even if this study does not draw on Giddens ' ( 1981 ) notion of structuration to address this sort of question . |