Example sentences of "[adj] place at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She echoed her father 's assurance , ensured another place at table . |
| 2 | I did point out that you were supposed to have been in another place at the time … ’ |
| 3 | It says a lot for our common social perceptions that various observers can agree in their assessments of an individual seen with different people , in different places at different times , but only a detailed inventory , as Robert Cairns and James Green at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , have pointed out , can tell us how actual forms of behaviour are elicited , maintained and organised . |
| 4 | One of his most exciting finds was two different pieces of an 18th-century magnetic toy which were in two different places at the same auction . |
| 5 | And waking suddenly like that , you woke in a thousand different places at once , all the places that you 'd ever been . |
| 6 | Most of the attacks were near main roads , and the original police hypothesis was that a single madman or religious fanatic was motoring from one enclosed pasture to another ; then several horses seemed to have been assaulted in different places at the same time , although this is not certain . |
| 7 | With the advent of rear and then front projection and more elaborate types of matte shot ( eg travelling matte ) , the glass shot and the action might conveniently be shot in different places at different times . |
| 8 | Blackall rejected the Filmerian claim that only absolute monarchy was legitimate , and acknowledged that God had allowed different forms of government to develop in different places at different times . |
| 9 | Awarded a free place at Birmingham University to study music for three years , Peter was short of basics like clothes and books until Elaine Blond gave him £30 and arranged for Peter to work at Bloomsbury House in his holidays to help make up any shortfall . |
| 10 | Nearing my twelfth birthday , I was fortunate enough to secure a free place at the local secondary school . |
| 11 | But how lucky you 've got a free place at Redmond College ! |
| 12 | I had for winning a free place at ten , |
| 13 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 14 | Jochen Medau has also offered a free place at any training course to the Medau Society Chairman . |
| 15 | It was too hot on the roof so she got up and slithered down the ivy into the dark , damp place at the side of the boathouse and went indoors . |
| 16 | In the 1932 final Male was at left-half , while Bob John took an unfamiliar place at outside-right , Bastin moving inside to take James 's place . |
| 17 | Our own observations suggest that libraries , refurbished and sometimes reopened in anticipation of , or as a result of , a project grant , were popular places at lunchtimes and breaks , though as much for doing unrelated homework and/or sheltering from the weather as for specific use of the resources . |
| 18 | The buttons of her cardigan were correctly done up and the collar flattened neatly , the zip of the skirt was in its proper place at the side and her tattered bedroom slippers had been replaced with a tidy pair of court shoes , the wrong colour for the skirt . |
| 19 | There was an empty place at the bottom of the table . |
| 20 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |
| 21 | My second favourite place at the zoo was the Reptile House , and I 've had various sorts of reptiles as pets . |
| 22 | Bonaventure agreed , stretched , and walked back to his favourite place at the base of the pillar . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know that he will : but he was in High Places at the right times so it 's worth trying the Good Old Times routine … ’ |
| 24 | Waqar about to return to the battle , Gower outwardly calm , than whom no Englishman would have preferred another to have been at this place at this hour . |
| 25 | We ought to leave this place at once . |
| 26 | Say to yourself , " X was at this place at that time , now what can I use that would indicate that he was not ? " |
| 27 | Now , tha this place at Lane , they used to make typewriting machines , and that . |
| 28 | It occurs to me , being in this place at this time with no sign of an approaching end to the Kaffir war and all things uncertain , that it may be of interest to record the passages of everyday life if only as a source of remembrance and reflection in later years . |
| 29 | The criterion of land under cultivation is crude , and resists refinement : it is exceedingly difficult to say whether in a particular country in a particular decade or generation the rate of growth was steady ; in some places at some times there may well have been local and temporary declines . |
| 30 | Thereafter , a limited number of free places at secondary and university level were open to stiff competition . |