Example sentences of "[pos pn] place at " 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 | ‘ No one will be at my place at this time of night . ’ |
| 7 | I only wish Tata had lived to see me take up my place at Bedford College . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The organ here is a fine instrument , well played by Bernard Gavoty , and this account takes its place at or near the top of a very long list . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | He rose , and restored his chair to its place at the neighbouring table . |
| 15 | The round table talks resumed in Belfast on Sept. 29 and the following day the DUP resumed its place at the negotiating table . |
| 16 | They fear that its place at the cutting edge of environmental radicalism has been taking by groups such as Earth First . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My sister , Violet , was one she coached to that standard but she was n't able to take her place at grammar school because the uniform she had to have was beyond the means of my family . |
| 21 | She rose quietly from her place at the side of the table and went out of the room . |
| 22 | 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 ! ’ |
| 23 | He had taken her place at the eyepiece of the instrument . |
| 24 | Even from her place at the desk she could read the gold lettering on the frame . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | The Prince of Wales has offered to take her place at the service if necessary . |
| 27 | I pause to indicate those would not have been sufficient grades to get her her place at Norwich , close quotations , close brackets . |
| 28 | The evidence of whether she would have taken up her place at Norwich in Autumn nineteen eighty seven or would have taken a year off and started in Autumn nineteen eight eight is equivocal . |
| 29 | It booked their place at Wembley on Sunday May 10 and brought the club 's dreams of a non-League double a step closer . |
| 30 | 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 . |