Example sentences of "[verb] they [prep] [num ord] 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 | They won one , in South Paddington , and cost official Conservative candidates the seat in several more , often driving them into third place . |
| 3 | But she was also aware that no matter how she felt , her family would never allow her to relegate them to second place . |
| 4 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 5 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That keeps them in second place . |
| 9 | But Everton 's recent success this season hoisted them into second place — and Johnston 's Goodison story may not be over yet . |
| 10 | West Ham on a mini-revival , the win moves them into 10th place , I believe . |
| 11 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
| 12 | 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 . |