Example sentences of "[adj] place at the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , species are real things , with real discontinuities between them — at least if we confine ourselves to sexual organisms living in the same place at the same time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 6 | ‘ We happened to be in the same place at the same time a couple of months ago , ’ she replied , terse and offhand . |
| 7 | The home can , therefore , be seen as a potentially significant source of ontological security , even if large numbers of people finding such security in the same place at the same time can itself lead to much anxiety . |
| 8 | Really the only reason I could think of when it 's you know it is important to put things on paper are really like the last three bits that we talked the last three things we talked about which detailed information would need to be there so people can read it when you know it 's got to get to a lot people not all in the same place at the same time or when it 's you need a copy . |
| 9 | Several places at the same time . |
| 10 | Nobody can be in two places at the same time . |
| 11 | You see , ladies and gentlemen , whatever happens in life , no person can ever be in two places at the same time , for the laws of the Universe forbid it . |