Example sentences of "[pos pn] place at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Sarah resented me , even my place at the head of the table , and gave orders to the servants over my head . |
| 3 | I went upstairs , had a wash then took my place at the dining table . |
| 4 | After lunch I recrossed the road to the newsagents , and took my place at the wailing wall of the pornography section . |
| 5 | Perhaps we may even persuade him to take my place at the chess-board . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Its place at the centre of government thinking was re-emphasised in April 1939 when the RCM was told that , henceforth , each guarantor would have to put up a deposit of £50 to support the cost of a child 's re-emigration . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 10 | He rose , and restored his chair to its place at the neighbouring table . |
| 11 | The round table talks resumed in Belfast on Sept. 29 and the following day the DUP resumed its place at the negotiating table . |
| 12 | They fear that its place at the cutting edge of environmental radicalism has been taking by groups such as Earth First . |
| 13 | Cycle triumph : The bicycle voted Best Bike of 1993 at the Harrogate Cycle Fair has taken its place at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum , Cultra , alongside some of its illustrious predecessors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She rose quietly from her place at the side of the table and went out of the room . |
| 17 | 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 ! ’ |
| 18 | He had taken her place at the eyepiece of the instrument . |
| 19 | Even from her place at the desk she could read the gold lettering on the frame . |
| 20 | The Prince of Wales has offered to take her place at the service if necessary . |
| 21 | For women whose self-esteem has been largely derived from being the centre of the home , there are a set of problems and issues to be resolved when they are required to take their place at the side of the family stage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Announcing that " the time for negotiation has arrived " , de Klerk invited representative black leaders to " walk through the open door " and take their place at the negotiating table " together with the government and other leaders who have important power bases inside and outside Parliament " . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Sid finished his cigarette and took his place at the Bren gun . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Victory would have secured Jarryd his place at the top of the points table , a feat worth £110,000 . |
| 28 | A boiled egg and two slices of buttered bread had been laid out at his place at the table . |
| 29 | Lermontov left his seat to go and neck with Tsvetaeva , and Solzhenitsyn gave up his place at the front to go back and chat to Gogol and Pushkin . |
| 30 | ‘ Punish you ? ’ she raised one eyebrow at him as she put a plate of food at his place at the table . |