Example sentences of "[adv] in the same place " in BNC.

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1 At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place .
2 ( In his reply , Karajan pointed out that as two men had died whilst conducting Tristan und Isolde , both more or less in the same place in the score , it was perhaps worth sponsoring some medical research into the subject . )
3 exactly in the same place .
4 Every summer a butterfly settles there precisely where I want to sit , always in the same place .
5 The satirist , Saki , once observed that right and wrong , like the Russian Empire , had certain well-defined limits , albeit not always in the same place .
6 erm , it , the , i the , the er means of closing a window is not always in the same place .
7 It was not until I met my current hairdresser ( who thankfully is still in the same place three years later ! ) that I realised the importance of a good head of hair , stylishly cut , well-conditioned and subtly coloured .
8 They 're still in the same place are they ?
9 c. ( or ca. ) about ( as in a date ) cf. compare with ed(s) editor(s) or edition(s) ff. following or onwards Ibid. in the same place MS(S) manuscript(s) op. ( loc. cit. (s) ) in the work(place) already cited passim throughout pp. pages q.v. which see ( as in a recommended work ) ser. series ( of journals ) v. volume
10 But we always stood roughly in the same place and we knew the forty or fifty people around us 'cos they were always there .
11 Fortunately , Dod and Chase had been provided with camping stools and although Dod 's creaked a bit under his weight , it did mean they stayed roughly in the same place .
12 The collieries used to there used to be a wall from the right to the chapel that was at even now in the same place .
13 I think that and I mean you go with the sort of attitude , that lightning will never strike twice in the same place , but then again I mean who knows ?
14 ‘ We do n't have a history of twins in the family — and , in any case , there 's a proverb : lightning never strikes twice in the same place , right ? ’
15 The saying , ’ Lightning never strikes twice in the same place , ’ does n't ring very true for Ted Ayris .
16 On the second day after she first saw the white gleam she saw it again in the same place .
17 Since both sites and nesting material are usually in short supply in a weaver bird colony , he often laboriously unravels his first attempt and using its constituents weaves it all over again in the same place .
18 I hit him again in the same place , a little harder .
19 It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable .
20 Books are taken out , and if they 're put back at all it 's never in the same place .
21 SERVICEMEN and women are seldom in the same place long enough to put down roots and buy their own home .
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