Example sentences of "find a place [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |
| 2 | On the open land of Hampstead Heath , away from people and houses , he found a place in a field where he could sleep without being disturbed . |
| 3 | This can double as the machine teachers use to preview materials and to find a place on a tape before a lesson . |
| 4 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 5 | Anyone wishing to attend alone will be found a place on a team . |
| 6 | He had lost his job because of the incident , but had later found a place on a youth training scheme , magistrates were told . |
| 7 | It was in 1936 that the first American edition of Lionello Venturi 's History of Art Criticism was published , containing material which could equally have found a place in a book about art history . |
| 8 | Many of the suggestions in this book about ways of using video assume that the person using it is familiar with what the machine can do and so feels confident about finding a place on a tape , stopping and starting at will , turning the sound up and down and so on . |
| 9 | There are a range of other citizenship ‘ obligations ’ that could find a place in a government 's policy . |