Example sentences of "[adj] place at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She echoed her father 's assurance , ensured another place at table . |
| 2 | I did point out that you were supposed to have been in another place at the time … ’ |
| 3 | Awarded a free place at Birmingham University to study music for three years , Peter was short of basics like clothes and books until Elaine Blond gave him £30 and arranged for Peter to work at Bloomsbury House in his holidays to help make up any shortfall . |
| 4 | Nearing my twelfth birthday , I was fortunate enough to secure a free place at the local secondary school . |
| 5 | But how lucky you 've got a free place at Redmond College ! |
| 6 | I had for winning a free place at ten , |
| 7 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 8 | Jochen Medau has also offered a free place at any training course to the Medau Society Chairman . |
| 9 | It was too hot on the roof so she got up and slithered down the ivy into the dark , damp place at the side of the boathouse and went indoors . |
| 10 | In the 1932 final Male was at left-half , while Bob John took an unfamiliar place at outside-right , Bastin moving inside to take James 's place . |
| 11 | The buttons of her cardigan were correctly done up and the collar flattened neatly , the zip of the skirt was in its proper place at the side and her tattered bedroom slippers had been replaced with a tidy pair of court shoes , the wrong colour for the skirt . |
| 12 | There was an empty place at the bottom of the table . |
| 13 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |
| 14 | My second favourite place at the zoo was the Reptile House , and I 've had various sorts of reptiles as pets . |
| 15 | Bonaventure agreed , stretched , and walked back to his favourite place at the base of the pillar . |
| 16 | Waqar about to return to the battle , Gower outwardly calm , than whom no Englishman would have preferred another to have been at this place at this hour . |
| 17 | We ought to leave this place at once . |
| 18 | Say to yourself , " X was at this place at that time , now what can I use that would indicate that he was not ? " |
| 19 | Now , tha this place at Lane , they used to make typewriting machines , and that . |
| 20 | It occurs to me , being in this place at this time with no sign of an approaching end to the Kaffir war and all things uncertain , that it may be of interest to record the passages of everyday life if only as a source of remembrance and reflection in later years . |
| 21 | The trials of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four , provide damning evidence of the state 's corrupt disregard for the rights of innocent people unfortunate to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong kind of Irish accent . |
| 22 | Being the wrong age , being in the wrong place at the wrong time , or being domiciled in a particular district reverse the assumptions of due process . |
| 23 | He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department . |
| 24 | There was an awkward pause and then he added , ‘ He was in the wrong place at the wrong time . ’ |
| 25 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 26 | Or they may simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 27 | Like many other innocent victims of The Troubles , he was in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 28 | Sometimes this may be unfortunate pupils who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ; but often it is the teachers ' families who begin to bear the brunt , and whose reserves of tolerance and goodwill may also , after a while , begin to dry up in turn . |
| 29 | It depends if you 're in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time . |
| 30 | They are the wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time . |