Example sentences of "[vb past] place a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the murder took place a good two hours after the window was closed . ’ |
| 2 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 3 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 4 | The ceremony took place a week early during the end-of-term Mass because the pupils will be on their Easter holidays on Maundy Thursday . |
| 5 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said detectives received 30–40 new pieces of information after Thursday 's reconstruction , which took place a week after the murder of 47-year-old Miss Bradley , whose boyfriend was teacher Nick Osborne , from Felsted School , near Great Dunmow , Essex . |
| 6 | It will be of interest to see whether the reasoning is applied to the courts ' powers of review ; if this took place a general right to reasoned decisions would have evolved . |
| 7 | Most of the highland-type rocks , even those found on the maria , have ages between about 3800 Ma and 4300 Ma , which suggests that a lunar-wide heating took place a little over 4300 Ma ago resetting the radiometric ‘ clocks ’ . |
| 8 | The gathering of about 90 delegates from most Highland denominations took place a year after the churches ' first AIDS conference . |