Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often it was relatives or friends of us permanents , who used it as a temporary place to stay on arrival until they found bedsits or whatever . |
| 2 | Don Carleton 's work on the lost Prince 's Theatre brought happy memories to many of the older generation who remembered it as a magical place of childhood . |
| 3 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 4 | One is not really aware of the pain as being in a certain place ; one is aware of the pain , and one connects it with a certain place , rather as one connects different sorts of sensations with different sorts of malady — rheumatism , indigestion , and so on . |
| 5 | Me , I 've tucking had it with the small place . |
| 6 | ‘ If you leave it in a dark place and keep it wet it 's bound to grow big . |
| 7 | And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it . |
| 8 | The argument is clearest in its application to the theatre : recall Harsnett 's view that the theatre was a zone of pollution and licence , one capable of being managed by locating it in a designated place on the social periphery . |
| 9 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 10 | He could quite easily accomplish it in a public place of that sort because everyone 's attention is drawn away from the area where you were sitting . |
| 11 | If Maurin wanted to kill me , surely he would n't attempt it in a public place where he might be recognized . ’ |
| 12 | In a recent NCT survey , 19 out of 20 British people said they approved of breastfeeding in principle , but did n't like to see it in a public place . |
| 13 | ‘ Read the document later , and keep it in a safe place . ’ |
| 14 | Mrs Burrows , unknown to Eva , promptly put it in a safe place , ready for the next rung of the ladder . |
| 15 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 16 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 17 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 18 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 19 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 20 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 21 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 22 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 23 | I find it in the unlikeliest places , many of which had not sold it for at least 25 years . |
| 24 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 25 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 26 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 27 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 28 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 29 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 30 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |