Example sentences of "[indef pn] and [pron] in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The honours system developed in medieval Britain as a means of maintaining the strict hierarchy necessary for monarchical rule : a place for everyone and everyone in their place .
2 The urge to order the natural world appears to be an innate characteristic of human beings : ‘ a place for everything and everything in its place ’ .
3 ‘ A place for everything and everything in its place ’ is my motto
4 Her woollen hat was lying on a chair : she was a tidy woman , over-tidy ; there was a place for everything and everything in its place , was her motto .
5 Cleanliness may be the basic aim , with untidiness tolerated ; or there may be an attitude of ‘ a place for everything and everything in its place ’ while the dust under the beds and the dirt hidden in crevices pass relatively unnoticed .
6 In an ideal world , and the NMS , there 's a place for everything and everything in its place .
7 He had embarked on a serious and very likely dangerous undertaking which , until its conclusion , must precede anything and everything in his life .
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