Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Agnes disappeared , ’ replied Monks , ‘ her father changed his name and moved to a lonely place in Wales , where no one would know about the family shame . |
| 2 | It stopped at the usual place , and a soldier in a red and gold uniform jumped down . |
| 3 | And er I used to go myself quite a lot er when there were well when there were more than one coming up I 've seen me go into , down in the pullman train from here to er , well we had about five changes I think , fat father had it all marked out so as you changed at a certain place . |
| 4 | The staff of the Home were involved , and Mrs R. opted for a permanent place and was transferred at once . |
| 5 | So America seemed like a good place to come . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But you seemed keen to meet me this morning , so this seemed like the best place . ’ |
| 7 | See it installed in a public place and then bow out . |
| 8 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 9 | The two who came in the first place . |
| 10 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 11 | Describing his arrival in Britain in 1959 , Honderich states that he ‘ came from a decent place to join a nation of decency … ( when ) the decency of England … was … still in a kind of ascendancy ’ . |
| 12 | Now that we know what it means , will the Prime Minister reflect on the ’ double whammy ’ that he received from the other place on the Education ( Schools ) Bill last night ? |
| 13 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 14 | ‘ We came to a lonely place where I could hear the sea crashing on rocks near by . |
| 15 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 16 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 17 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |
| 18 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 19 | In fact he drove to a further place , as he had always intended . |
| 20 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 21 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 22 | ( The theatre , always open-air , consisted in the first place of a circular dancing-floor ( orchestra ) , where the chorus danced and sang , and the skene , behind the orchestra , was later added for the actors . |
| 23 | When a commentary on Michael Rutter 's Fifteen Thousand Hours was formulated by Tizard and others ( 1980 ) it acknowledged in the first place that in the report an impressive base of data supported " an architecture in which many common sense perceptions about schools were co-ordinated " ( Tizard et al. |
| 24 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 25 | ‘ Ca n't think how he escaped in the first place , ’ complained the Home Secretary . |
| 26 | Once you begin lying , it is hard not to go on because it is impossible to explain why you lied in the first place . |
| 27 | actually asked in the first place . |
| 28 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 29 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 30 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |