Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are three tall trees , ’ he said , ‘ in about the right place . |
| 2 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 3 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 6 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 7 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |
| 8 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 9 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 10 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 11 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 12 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
| 13 | Instead of presenting a strong , clear answer to this misconception , many Christians show that their defences are down at the very place where modern unbelief is most devastating . |
| 14 | A MAN burgled a pub just a few weeks after he was caught with the proceeds from a break in at the same place . |
| 15 | so I decided I 'd have a go in a factory , aha , and I come in it was over in the other place , the noise was unbelievable , really unbelievable . |
| 16 | Switchboard use it a lot again , to try and get to the bottom of , you know , calls that are going through to the wrong place and things like that . |
| 17 | But I 've copied over to the same place , what it seems to be doing provided the cell pointed out , you 're looking at the top left . |
| 18 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 19 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 20 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 21 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |
| 23 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
| 24 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 25 | If , however , the dance told the bees where to go , they should go off to the wrong place ( depending on where Gould had put the light bulb ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes it does get me down , but I get over that and then it is off to the next place . ’ |
| 27 | But the new Act requires the keeping of expensive records — from the time of the first gift of over £1,000 till death carries one off to the happier place , where neither thieves nor the tax-gatherers break through and steal . |
| 28 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 29 | Drill-holes never end up in the right place , screws do n't go in straight , and no matter how carefully they measure , nothing ever quite fits . |
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