Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] fourth place " in BNC.

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1 Northampton moved into fourth place after a hard-fought 12–7 win over Harlequins .
2 Fellow Ulsterman Ronan Rafferty , who just missed out on a Ryder Cup cap , moved into fourth place on six under , six behind , with a 68 .
3 Mattan , who had taken over the yellow jersey from Lillywhite in Leicester on Saturday , started yesterday 33 seconds ahead of Lillywhite but had dropped to fourth place overall by the end of the day .
4 Northern Ireland have now moved into fourth place in the Group Three table , and Bingham said : ‘ I want to finish the series on a high note and obtain as many points as possible to consolidate our FIFA grading position for future tournaments . ’
5 Adam sneaked into fourth place on 20.63sec , a quarter of a second slower than Christie .
6 Coarse Angling team saw them finish in fourth place , just 10 points away from a medal position , in the World Freshwater Angling Championships .
7 The pressure — it 'll be off them , they are no longer champions — but let's remember they did finish in fourth place and I 've got a feeling that they 're not giving anything away at Oxford Speedway , because they never do .
8 There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate .
9 She careered across the finish line minus her skis but was still credited with fourth place behind winner Carole Merle of France .
10 Jacobo Majluta of the Independent Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) finished in fourth place , with four other candidates receiving only insignificant levels of support .
11 Regazzoni came second.to Fittipaldi in the championship , and Niki followed in fourth place behind Jody Scheckter of Tyrrell .
12 After a steward 's enquiry Colour Chart was relegated to fourth place .
13 Vagog was struggling in fourth place at the last where Lady Westown , going the best , fell and brought down Parlezvousfrancais .
14 By the mid-1930s the Soviet menace had slipped into fourth place in the SIS ‘ order of priorities ’ behind Germany , Italy , and Japan .
15 With new mid-range models , NWS5000TF and the NEWS5000TG in its News workstation line , based on the R4000 RISC chip , Sony Corp is mounting a new offensive in the Japanese workstation market , where it has fallen to fourth place from third , deposed by NEC Corp as the number three player behind Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co .
16 In a large field he did not have the clearest of runs as he challenged as a result of which he finished fast but too late having to settle for fourth place to the Ebor winner Quick Ransom .
17 In parliamentary by-elections on Nov. 29 in the two Paisley constituencies in Scotland , Labour held both seats with sharply reduced majorities ; the Conservative share of the poll fell only marginally , although the Scottish National Party candidates moved from fourth to second place in each case ( and the Liberal Democrats fell to fourth place ) .
18 Park Chan Jong , the candidate of the Party for New Political Reform ( NPR ) , finished in fourth place , campaigning on an " anti-Kims " and anti-corruption platform .
19 The First Division sees Clydebank and Airdrie still together at the top , with Dunfermline starting to make a charge , they 've climbed to fourth place .
20 By this time the port was the third largest in England for imports , after London and Liverpool , and was only beaten into fourth place for exports by Newcastle .
21 David Platt 's Juventus recovered from a bad defeat at Inter last week by thrashing Ancona 5–1 to move into fourth place .
22 Britain 's Roger Clark took on the blizzard conditions in the Lombard London-Sydney Marathon today to move into fourth place .
23 He made his worst start for years , found himself jammed in fourth place and then thought his race for the title might be over when a warning light flickered in the cockpit of the 200mph Renault-Williams .
24 But this time the British four were technically superb , and had the Australians trailing in fourth place .
25 At an inquiry , the stewards considered both riders guilty of intentional interference , and as well as banning the pair , they disqualified the two horses concerned and promoted Love Returned to fourth place .
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