Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] into [num ord] 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 Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division .
3 Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place .
4 A good showing by Lyles put them into second place on 233 points while Reyburns , one of the fancied teams , did not live up to expectations and finished third on 210 points .
5 The original Model X ( NR49V ) was known also as the Cirrus Derby Racer and Lowell Bayles flew it into second Place in the 1930 All-America Derby .
6 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 .
7 It was not her first transatlantic flight , as she was in the French team last autumn in Washington , New York and Toronto , where Miss Ledermann rode her into second place in the World Cup round , behind Britain 's Tina Cassan and Genesis .
8 But Everton 's recent success this season hoisted them into second place — and Johnston 's Goodison story may not be over yet .
9 West Ham on a mini-revival , the win moves them into 10th place , I believe .
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 .
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