Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] in [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 2 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 3 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 4 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 5 | I ca n't bear to visit you in that place . |
| 6 | Do n't just pour it in one place . |
| 7 | In developing an image , you and your workers , professional or voluntary , have to swallow your pride , smile at yourselves and put yourselves in second place to getting the message across — not easy , not often said , but true ! |
| 8 | Do you still believe anybody in that place ? |
| 9 | That keeps them in second place . |
| 10 | I 'd like to wish you well , Hazel , but there 's no good to wish you in this place . |
| 11 | This was an attitude which , long afterwards , was to put him in second place to Phan Boi Chau in the opinion of the Communist Party which , although stressing the patriotism of both men , especially Phan Boi Chau , declared that Phan Chu Trinh had mistaken the principal enemy . |
| 12 | Over the same period America 's reserves have doubled , to $74 billion , to put it in second place ; back in 1988 it was in only sixth place . |
| 13 | In this way the plant provides the larva with somewhere to live and feed , but keeps it in one place where it can not damage the leaves , buds or other important parts of the plant . |
| 14 | The Leeds average including the 39,106 that attended the QPR game is now 34,104 which keeps us in 4th place . |
| 15 | His face seemed familiar somehow , and yet I could n't recall seeing him in this place before . |
| 16 | Lee Marvin used to do something similar , announcing , ‘ I 'm a coward and I bet anybody in this place can beat me ’ . |
| 17 | I must ask you to stop this quarrelling instantly , or to continue it in another place . " |
| 18 | Ian Wiley of Ireland had a time some 3 seconds faster than the winner but his 5 second penalty for touching a gate put him in 4th place overall . |
| 19 | Briggs , in his first race , matched the time of the senior riders on his opening lap and his finishing time would have put him in fourth place in the senior event after three laps . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Excluding its OEM partners , which include Fujitsu Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Fuji Xerox Co , Nippon Steel Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and other powerful players , Sun had an 11.4% share of the market last fiscal , putting it in fourth place , but if the OEM sales are included it shoots to the top with a 22.7% share . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I thought he must have left it in that place round the point , Halfway House . |
| 25 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
| 26 | Miguel was his usual self and his efficiency left him in fifth place . |
| 27 | Cottrell 's 82 left him in fifth place , along with Tim Paterson of Letherhead , with his Cheshire captain Phil Bailey of Caldy and another Cheshire player Gareth Bradley of Bramhall in a group on 302 . |
| 28 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 29 | Driving for the 555 Subaru World Rally team , he ended the 3-day event 7 minutes ahead of his nearest rival and leaves him in 6th place in the World drivers table . |