Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in all other respects Tonga is more rightfully regarded as the closest place and has an International Date Line Hotel in the main town , Nuku'alofa , to prove it . |
| 2 | It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 4 | the subject areas omitted in the first place ; |
| 5 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 6 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 7 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 8 | The battery compartment is located in the same place , so you wo n't have to shred your hand through the soundhole to effect a changeover . |
| 9 | Similarly teams of medical advisers were brought down to William Osborne to inspect and comment on the level and location of medical equipment so that as the boat was built the right equipment was installed in the right place . |
| 10 | It had been included in the first place On the insistence of the republicans , who refused to march without it . |
| 11 | If added water constitutes more than 5% of total product weight , that , too , must be included in the appropriate place in the list of ingredients . |
| 12 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
| 13 | And when you the schools , the shops in that area , I 'm not only surprised it was n't considered in the first place , but secondly , it is the key to the whole scheme and er although I 'm quite happy to move the erm recommendation , I must say that I have a very very deep concern regarding Road . |
| 14 | Parked in the same place as before . |
| 15 | Her car was still parked in the same place , already it looked dusty and unused . |
| 16 | The trials of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four , provide damning evidence of the state 's corrupt disregard for the rights of innocent people unfortunate to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong kind of Irish accent . |
| 17 | Greek tragedy , he impressed on his audience , had been a total art form , a Gesamtkunst ( Wagner 's slogan , although Wagner 's name was not mentioned ) , to suit an age of whole men:a poetic drama that made use of architecture ( the theatre ) , painting ( scenery and costume ) , song , dance and music ; a drama created amid " perfection and harmony " by " artistic man " , who , at least in the earlier part of the fifth century , the time of Aeschylus , was poet , composer , conductor , producer and actor in one ; a drama performed at the communal festival of Dionysus before an audience which brought to the theatre something of the instinctive , rapturous spirit from which , in the Dionysiac celebrations , tragedy had originated in the first place . |
| 18 | Enquiries related to redundant churches , and especially their adaptation , should be addressed in the first place either to the secretary of the Redundant Churches Uses Committee of the Diocese ( see diocesan handbook ) or to the Secretary of the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches of the Church Commissioners . |
| 19 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 20 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 21 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
| 23 | ‘ I have come to the right place , have I ? |
| 24 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 25 | ‘ If you 're looking for trouble you 've definitely come to the right place , ’ said actor Christian Slater , host of the three-hour awards show telecast on the cable network from Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 26 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 27 | Following by instinct , following the trail of mind and memory that he had left , she had surely and with great purpose come to the final place of Harry 's death |
| 28 | I could say that you 've come to the wrong place , but I wo n't . ’ |
| 29 | It was as if she had come to the wrong place , as if the magic that shrivelled Cinderella 's full satins to limp rag had breathed over this place , enchantment vanished in the wood , only the old dank trees still and always there . |
| 30 | ‘ We seem to have come to the wrong place . ’ |