Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [det] place " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
4 | 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 ’ . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Marriage wo n't be a big change for them as they 'll be living in the same place , you know . |
10 | They 're looking at the same place where … ’ |
11 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
12 | ‘ Heading for the same place as yours when you see who he 's with . |
13 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
14 | So at that time that could of been taken into the context of , or one anyway , going to the same place |
15 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
16 | Rarely staying in the same place long , as though never satisfied with their accommodation , forever charging about the loch , the problem for anglers is always the same : finding where they lie . |
17 | ‘ We happen to be staying in the same place , and I 'm damned if I 'm keeping awake waiting for you to turn up . |
18 | And since it looks as if we 're all goin' to the same place , why do n't we take our kit to the left luggage then see if we ca n't find that canteen ? ’ |
19 | Most sailors soon tire of sailing in the same place all the time and look for new places to sail which will give them variety and a challenge . |
20 | They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons . |
21 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
22 | Claudia raced for the towel ; he was still standing in the same place and still looking helpless as she dealt briskly with the spill . |
23 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
24 | This time I made sure my master went first and , whilst he ran down the stairs , I scampered like a rabbit to the top of the tower , forcing back the trap door , standing in the same place that poor Falconer had . |
25 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
26 | The complication was in saying the newly minted lines at the right side of the mirror whilst arriving at the same place each time . |
27 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
28 | ‘ Within the main sett , the badgers moved around an awful lot , rarely sleeping in the same place two nights running . ’ |
29 | did you carry on working at the same place ? |
30 | Erm working at the same place for so many years you must have had ? |