Example sentences of "finish [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford 's character finishes eighth but , having overtaxed himself , he then collapses on the track . |
| 2 | The team that finishes first wins the game . |
| 3 | Another way is to give five points to the team which finishes first and ten to the team which fills up more of the bottle in a single round . |
| 4 | QUALITY FINISHES FIRST |
| 5 | The expedition finishes next week , and Raleigh is planning its fifth tour of Namibia in 1994 . |
| 6 | There is an element at the Oval who would happily finish 15th if the Blues were 16th . |
| 7 | ‘ We could finish second or seventh . |
| 8 | LINFORD CHRISTIE , Britain 's athlete of the year , could only finish sixth in the international poll to find the world 's top track and field stars of 1992 , won by American hurdler Kevin Young . |
| 9 | Barnsley 's John Mayock , who had been fancied possibly to go one better in Toronto than his silver in last year 's European Indoor Championships , ran out of steam as the pace hotted up in the 3,000m final , and could only finish sixth , in 7:54.41 , some four seconds behind Italian winner , Gennaro Di Napoli . |
| 10 | The Catalan side last night beat Benfica 2–1 in the Nou Camp stadium to top Group B of the competition 's semi-Finals while Red Star 's 3–2 defeat by Anderlecht meant that Sampdoria would finish first in Group A whatever their result against Panathinaikos . |
| 11 | If we adopt this definition , which is not too far from the colloquial meaning , nice guys can finish first . |
| 12 | We can see how , in Axelrod 's meaning of the term , nice guys may finish first . |
| 13 | They could herald the benignant idea that , even with selfish genes at the helm , nice guys can finish first . |
| 14 | ‘ Let me finish first about Timo . |
| 15 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 16 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 17 | So mummy ca n't have you wo n't finish first on pudding . |
| 18 | You wo n't finish first on pudding . |
| 19 | I wo n't finish first on pudding ? |
| 20 | Even the bookies think Newcastle will finish 2nd so he 's fooled them too . |
| 21 | won 24–15 at home to Widnes and will finish fifth unless Hull Ionians win their outstanding game by a large margin . |
| 22 | If art is an attempt to impose structure and meaning onto this chaos , there is no artefact more deliberately structured than the contemporary Hollywood movie , designed to prise money from the masses and reasssure them that good guys do n't necessarily finish last . |
| 23 | Their meeting at the City Ground supplies a chilling reminder that no side at the foot of the table is too good to go down , and that nice guys often do finish last . |
| 24 | There is good photographic evidence to suggest that Day Comet did in fact finish third , but the Epsom judge that day was the same Charles Robinson who had controversially denied Craganour the Two Thousand Guineas , and he placed Day Comet fifth . |
| 25 | I 'd rather run against the world champion and finish sixth in a good race in Aberdeen than win by 50 metres and not be pushed at Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 26 | Although Vietnamese children often finish first in Californian high schools , their parents and grandparents sometimes live miserable lives . |
| 27 | Nice guys finish first |
| 28 | This requirement is no different from any other kind of groupwork which allows for variation in pace of working and provides alternative tasks for those who finish first . |
| 29 | Nice guys finish last . |
| 30 | according to the cynical American saying , finish last . |