Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Out in the crisp , clear air , with a backdrop of mountains and a clear run ahead : wherever you choose in the world to ski — fashionable Switzerland , sexy , stylish Italy , star-struck Colorado — our run-down of high life destinations will make sure you end up in the right place . |
| 3 | The better your plan , the more likely you are to end up in the right place . |
| 4 | The way to overcome this is to sail slightly high of your intended course and you 'll end up in the right place . |
| 5 | Perhaps he just picked it up in the right place . |
| 6 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 7 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 11 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 12 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 13 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 14 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 15 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 17 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 18 | Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place . |
| 19 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 20 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 21 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 22 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 23 | Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place . |
| 24 | To try and reduce the potential for stress to build up in the first place . |
| 25 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 26 | Yes so why did you say shut up in the first place ? |
| 27 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 28 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 29 | we shall all end up in the same place |
| 30 | He 'll end up in the same place as the last bloke and he 's still there . |