Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 2 | For the next two years the King lived in various places , sometimes treated as a prisoner , sometimes as an honoured guest , but hardly ever able to consult with his most trusted advisers . |
| 3 | Argentina 's Jorge Recalde , who had been Sainz 's main challenger through the six-day rally fell to third place , 59 minutes behind the leader after both the rear and front drive shafts of his Lancia HF Integrale failed . |
| 4 | Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout . |
| 5 | I kicked out , and his leg broke in two places . |
| 6 | Only his secretary knew of this place . |
| 7 | They still argued , but at least the furniture stayed in one place . |
| 8 | Hardware faltered in last place with median annual turnover having dwindled 3.1% and below average pre-tax growth of 5.4% , but the companies in the hardware sector that survived the 1980s bubble are more soundly based . |
| 9 | I sometimes think that some of my hon. Friends who would like to see the tax in some way equalised between one place and another are hankering after a tax which this tax is not . |
| 10 | ‘ I was also thinking , ’ he whispered softly into her ear , ‘ that I could find a secluded spot and make love with you right now , if such a thing as a secluded spot existed in this place . ’ |