Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] place at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It booked their place at Wembley on Sunday May 10 and brought the club 's dreams of a non-League double a step closer . |
| 2 | John secured his place at the world finals in New York in August by beating 33 other Scottish Scrabble fanatics at an elimination contest in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | I took my place at the top of a walkway between the orchestra , the curtains opened and a lush sigh from the string section led the intro of ‘ Memories ’ . |
| 4 | After lunch I recrossed the road to the newsagents , and took my place at the wailing wall of the pornography section . |
| 5 | Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt . |
| 6 | Celeste Hinds , mother of a Down 's syndrome child , took her place at the rostrum , dominated overhead by SPUC 's ubiquitous emblem : the crying foetus . |
| 7 | Good-naturedly , she took her place at the end of the line and when Ernest was satisfied with the arrangements , he said : ‘ Watch the birdie ! ’ |
| 8 | Sid finished his cigarette and took his place at the Bren gun . |
| 9 | Ross John Mackenzie was born without any complications , and took his place at the end of the Mackenzie line . |
| 10 | That evening , Scott took his place at the news desk and ran an eye over his script . |
| 11 | But once the horses were unsaddled , rubbed down and hobbled , he spread a blanket on the hard ground and took his place at the evening meal with the others . |
| 12 | Isay took his place at Riven 's side once more . |
| 13 | ‘ Not on your life , ’ Riven spat , and he took his place at Isay 's shoulder . |
| 14 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
| 15 | He was in the third-year sixth when he got his place at Trinity Hall , Cambridge . |
| 16 | Sport resumed its place at the centre of male culture providing familiar landmarks for private lives , giving a kind of chronology or structure to the year . |
| 17 | The round table talks resumed in Belfast on Sept. 29 and the following day the DUP resumed its place at the negotiating table . |
| 18 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 19 | Having established the tone , Procul Harum duly yielded their place at the top of the charts to the Beatles , who settled on the essence of that summer with ‘ All You Need Is Love ’ , to be followed by Scott McKenzie 's ‘ San Francisco ’ , which was , millions of radios announced , the place to be to skip the light fandango , and where all one needed was love . |