Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 3 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 4 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 5 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 6 | It 's your thinking that got you into this place ! ’ |
| 7 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 12 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 13 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
| 14 | But Everton 's recent success this season hoisted them into second place — and Johnston 's Goodison story may not be over yet . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Miguel was his usual self and his efficiency left him in fifth place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Stewart gave the car its first win at Zandvoort , and victories at the Nurburgring , by a staggering four minutes , and at Watkins Glen ensured him of second place in the championship to his former team-mate Hill . |
| 23 | The gradient of a curve is the gradient of tangent , so we can draw a tangent where you wanted it at that place . |