Example sentences of "[adj] place [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , Marks & Spencer is considered the most sensible place for the middle class to shop . |
| 2 | The lady I hoped to marry was Miss Marjorie Alice Barrett , who was a teacher in the National school of St Luke 's , Maidenhead , which I had attended when the family moved up from Somerset , and from which I gained a free place to the local county school . |
| 3 | Nearing my twelfth birthday , I was fortunate enough to secure a free place at the local secondary school . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 6 | The argument is clearest in its application to the theatre : recall Harsnett 's view that the theatre was a zone of pollution and licence , one capable of being managed by locating it in a designated place on the social periphery . |
| 7 | Acute hardship persisted until widows ' pensions — granted in 1925 — ameliorated the problem , but even then ambivalent feelings on the part of the authorities about the proper place of the able-bodied widow persisted . |
| 8 | The by-product of his work is to vindicate the proper place of the Christian intellectual within the community . |
| 9 | Maybe next time we shall consign the polls to their proper place alongside the racing tips , but somehow I doubt it . |
| 10 | Overseas exploration and colonial settlement opened up vistas of fabulous riches ; the existence of the barbarians could no longer just be taken for granted ; they had to be fitted in and given their proper place in the ordinary man 's picture of world geography . |
| 11 | The depot and its locomotives have a high place in the Southern enthusiasts ' hearts and Boocock has brought together a collection of pictures that illustrated the life in and around the depot as well as its varied locomotive stud out and about on the system 's metals . |
| 12 | Lubavitch occupies a peculiar place in the Jewish world . |
| 13 | La Coruňa was our favourite place of the whole trip . |
| 14 | It stated that Scott , who ‘ has fairly earned the most distinguished place in the late competition ’ , should receive the commission , or the fourteen office prize-winners should compete against themselves . |
| 15 | It depends if you 're in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was an awkward pause and then he added , ‘ He was in the wrong place at the wrong time . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Or they may simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 22 | Like many other innocent victims of The Troubles , he was in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They are the wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 25 | Fate had put her in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man . |
| 26 | ‘ My husband was a very good poet , as you know , but he was unlucky , one of those people who are always in the wrong place at the wrong time in his career . |
| 27 | Did I mess up your plans by being in the wrong place at the wrong time ? ’ |
| 28 | The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital . |
| 29 | Some innocent , he supposed , in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 30 | He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , like I am now , so just piss off out of it , will you ? |