Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 2 | Endill watched Tock make a hole in the wall , holding his hammer with both hands to stop it banging in the wrong place . |
| 3 | To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed . |
| 4 | Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place . |
| 5 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 6 | You will now want to make sure that your feet are landing in the right place . |
| 7 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 8 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 9 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 10 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |
| 11 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 12 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 13 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 14 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 15 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 16 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 17 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |
| 18 | Zuwaya probably used marriages to create alliances with members of other lineages living in the same place , and to maintain connection with members of the same lineage living in different places , even though they did not feel the same ecological pressures as the members of the Saadi confederation . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , species are real things , with real discontinuities between them — at least if we confine ourselves to sexual organisms living in the same place at the same time . |
| 20 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 21 | Marriage wo n't be a big change for them as they 'll be living in the same place , you know . |
| 22 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
| 23 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 24 | But first of all in terms of a precedency attitude I hope I 'm looking in the right place ? |
| 25 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
| 26 | If you ca n't find the right staff , perhaps you 're looking in the wrong place . |
| 27 | This suggests , once again , that comprehension experiments may have been looking in the wrong place for evidence of young children 's linguistic competence . |
| 28 | What was the , what was the point in averaging in the first place ? |
| 29 | What had made him take up writing in the first place ? the interviewer asked . |
| 30 | I did [ think of myself as a cabbage ] when I was living at the other place doing all that washing by hand … |