Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number were of the same place , some old village with nobody in it , the first a shot down a dusty road and the rest of individual buildings or , in some cases , of open fields enclosed by split-rail fencing . |
| 2 | They were in the first place monotheists . |
| 3 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 4 | just now they were in the same place , like Wayne and the trucks , but sometime soon they 'd be miles apart . |
| 5 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 6 | At two o'clock sharp the class assembled , including Miss Honey who noted that the jug of water and the glass were in the proper place . |
| 7 | Brought in early last year , Max had been so badly kicked by a sadistic owner that most of his bodily organs were in the wrong places . |
| 8 | It was somewhat over-elaborate , or , rather , the complications were in the wrong places . |
| 9 | Kirkcudbright , Huntly , Eyemouth , Stirling and Edinburgh were among the many places which yielded unwanted vehicles for the collection . |
| 10 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 11 | Peter and Gwenda Dixon were at the wrong place , at the wrong time . |
| 12 | He 'd met her at work , which was about the only place where he did meet people these days . |
| 13 | It was in the usual place . |
| 14 | There were other examples : Coleridge , Yeats and Browning were some of those caught out not knowing a hawk from a handsaw , or not even knowing what a handsaw was in the first place . |
| 15 | than there was in the first place . |
| 16 | That 's how he was in the first place though . |
| 17 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |
| 18 | it existed , in reality , because Ford needed something special to tempt people into their showrooms and Shelby was in the right place at the right time to provide it . |
| 19 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 20 | This particular campaign may have failed but Paisley had demonstrated that his heart was in the right place . |
| 21 | However he just put in a test dose to see if it was in the right place . |
| 22 | His heart was in the right place . |
| 23 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 24 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 25 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 26 | On the platform she was not at all sure that she was in the right place . |
| 27 | It was in the right place at the right time , and the underground press , in the United States , was born . |
| 28 | The young South African concluded he was in the right place , and at the right time . |
| 29 | Sec. , crafty devil , was in the right place at the right time when the service train arrived at Deeside Halt , and had a footplate ride on ‘ Foxcote Manor ’ on the run round . |
| 30 | The one exception came just seconds from half-time when the defence was slow to mop up the danger when Richardson 's corner was only parried , and Alan Dowd was in the right place to equalise . |