Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [num ord] place " in BNC.

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1 Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap .
2 Defending champions Denbigh moved themselves menacingly into second place by crushing Craig-y-Don 9–1 in the biggest win of the week , but Sunny Rhyl lost ground in a shock 7–3 tumble at lowly Min-y-Don Park .
3 That dropped me down from second place . ’
4 However , Chelsea fans went home deliriously happy after the club 's seventh win in eight games , a run which has moved them up to fifth place .
5 Adrian Hill , the former Cheshire match play champion from Bramhall , who turned professional last year , has also won through after an indifferent first season on the European Challenge Tour , which saw him back in 100th place in the order with earnings of just over £4,000 .
6 Thereafter the company of the other horses kept him on course , and a bad mistake at the water jump on the second circuit worked to Mandarin 's advantage , as it put him back to fifth place and gave him horses to follow .
7 ‘ In this constituency the other two parties are fighting it out for second place , ’ insists the 49-year-old former Bishop Auckland Grammar School head boy .
8 So today puts us back into third place if we win and and obviously we want to be there .
9 That put us in about 15–20th place — — quite handy .
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