Example sentences of "[vb past] they [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 2 | I found them at last . |
| 3 | So their best event found them in sixth position . |
| 4 | Business Week , in February 1989 , also ranked them in fourth position , with 1988 revenues of $55m. earned from 1185 searches by 118 consultants . |
| 5 | ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 6 | Manchester United pipped them in last season 's Rumbelows Cup semi-final thriller and could pay for it today . |
| 7 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 8 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 9 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 10 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 11 | The overall result was that All Hallows were third , behind Marple Hall , whose local knowledge brought them in first and Queen Elizabeth GS , Wakefield . |
| 12 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 13 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 14 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
| 15 | But Everton 's recent success this season hoisted them into second place — and Johnston 's Goodison story may not be over yet . |
| 16 | The colts were 44th , having been 39th at halfway , following a contribution of 14 mins. 31 from Oliver Holter who promoted them from 66th . |
| 17 | And they ca n't rely on goal difference , which saved them from Third Division football in 1938 . |
| 18 | And they ca n't rely on goal difference , which saved them from Third Division football in 1938 . |
| 19 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
| 20 | No cos I did n't know you wanted them till last week did I ? |
| 21 | In the ten ‘ three-way ’ marginals — in which they were the main challengers just ahead of Labour — Labour won one ( Cambridge ) and pushed them into third place in another seven . |