Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the same place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | But Stripey rarely chose to sleep in the same place two nights running . |
| 3 | Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place . |
| 4 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 5 | ‘ Now , here , you see , it takes all the running you can do , to keep in the same place . |
| 6 | Several families who lived in the same settlement decided to leave as a result of her behaviour , and others insisted that they would never go to live in the same place as her . |
| 7 | Therefore if we do n't actually want to live in the same place as the residents , which I certainly would n't want to do , right . |
| 8 | With a mortgage , you have to run very fast to stay in the same place — like the Red queen . |
| 9 | You pedal harder to stay in the same place . ’ |
| 10 | For it to be plausible , continual adaptation must be necessary for the maintenance of the life history , just as the Red Queen had to keep running to stay in the same place . |
| 11 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 12 | To move in such landscape was survival : to stay in the same place suicide . |
| 13 | ‘ Would you like to eat at the same place ? ’ he asked , taking no risks . |