Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped at the usual place , and a soldier in a red and gold uniform jumped down . |
| 2 | ‘ But you seemed keen to meet me this morning , so this seemed like the best place . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 4 | The two who came in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ You want gracious elegance , you came to the right place . ’ |
| 7 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 8 | Someone whistled them out when we came to the narrowest place , bows strung and shafts fitted , shouting to us to halt . |
| 9 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | 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. |
| 13 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't think how he escaped in the first place , ’ complained the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | Once you begin lying , it is hard not to go on because it is impossible to explain why you lied in the first place . |
| 16 | actually asked in the first place . |
| 17 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 18 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 21 | It 's jazz and soul as a street thing , a club thing , ’ he says , ‘ which is where both those forms of music started and thrived in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | Comfort eating and disliking yourself are two classic symptoms of depression , so try to work out why you started in the first place . |
| 23 | Says Steve of former Laugh In star Goldie : ‘ We both started in the same place , on television . |
| 24 | They all started in the same place as the Beatles … the Cavern Club in Liverpool . |
| 25 | ‘ That is because you started in the wrong place . |
| 26 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 27 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 28 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 29 | And in the instant of time available to him , he thought of the only place of possible escape from this nightmare . |
| 30 | More than likely , you came out of the cinema wondering why you went in the first place . |