Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] third place " in BNC.
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| 1 | They won one , in South Paddington , and cost official Conservative candidates the seat in several more , often driving them into third place . |
| 2 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 3 | Francis insisted that taking Wednesday into Europe this season , after leading them to third place behind Leeds and Manchester United in April , was his career high point — despite scoring the winner in a European Cup final . |
| 4 | The following March Bob Champion rode him into third place behind Alverton in 1979 the Cheltenham Gold Cup ( at 40–1 ) and the month after that Aldaniti ran second to Fighting Fit in the Scottish National at Ayr . |
| 5 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 6 | While Brown 's victory did not immediate transform his candidacy from the status of quixotic eccentric to serious contender , it did establish him in third place behind Clinton and Tsongas , and ensured the continuance of federal matching funds . |
| 7 | His tally now stands at 11 , which puts him in third place behind Robert Alner ( 16 ) and Philip Scholfield ( 12 ) in the Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship . |
| 8 | The merger of the two operations will transform Hawker Siddeley into the UK 's biggest supplier while giving it 10 per cent of the European market - putting it in third place behind the Swedish-Swiss combine Asea Brown Boveri and Siemens of West Germany . |
| 9 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
| 10 | Yet his storming finish carried him into third place , a head and 1 ½ lengths behind two super-fit hurdlers , Cruising Altitude ( rec 6lb ) and Nomadic Way ( rec 10lb ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |