Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] place at " in BNC.
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| 1 | this has got costs back on to a sensible basis , and he is convinced that this assures the Company of its place at the forefront of the european industry . |
| 2 | He had taken up his duties shortly after the beginning of the spring term , when he was sure of his place at Trinity Hall . |
| 3 | If you live outside reasonable travelling distance of the campus , you will have been sent details concerning accommodation at the time of confirmation of your place at the University . |
| 4 | The only way out of this conundrum would be to argue , not only that the contents of the bracket are for the tribunal , but that it can alter these at will , and put any other contents in their place at any time . |
| 5 | ‘ For this same reason once she had caught up with her husband ( and been sent quickly home as being very undutiful and immoral travelling about alone and not remaining in her place at home against his return ) it would have been inconceivable for her to go to the police . |
| 6 | Richard Chauncy tore down this house , and built the one which stands in its place at a cost of £20,000 between 1747 and 1752 . |
| 7 | There was such a racket from their place at night during lambing time — and that 's a twenty-four-hour job with no time to sleep . |
| 8 | She rose quietly from her place at the side of the table and went out of the room . |
| 9 | Even from her place at the desk she could read the gold lettering on the frame . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 11 | In his place at the Treasury came the younger , almost reckless , figure of Nigel Lawson , an able former financial journalist and apparently still a nominal enthusiast for monetarism . |
| 12 | She heard him being pushed from his place at the keyhole . |
| 13 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 14 | He rose , and restored his chair to its place at the neighbouring table . |
| 15 | ‘ He says you 're to go to his place at sundown . ’ |
| 16 | He put his hands quickly in his pockets , bowed his head , and made his way sideways to his place at table . |
| 17 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 18 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ No one will be at my place at this time of night . ’ |
| 20 | A boiled egg and two slices of buttered bread had been laid out at his place at the table . |
| 21 | ‘ Punish you ? ’ she raised one eyebrow at him as she put a plate of food at his place at the table . |
| 22 | In Suger s case , this power was given sharper focus by its place at the apex of the terrestrial hierarchy ; for , as he had learned from the presumed patron of his monastery , Pseudo-Dionysius , this was the proper ordering of earthly political authority . |