Example sentences of "[vb past] they [prep] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 2 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 3 | But Everton 's recent success this season hoisted them into second place — and Johnston 's Goodison story may not be over yet . |
| 4 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus , not only did the strike draw new resources from the mining villages , it also recreated them as different places , with altered cultural forms . |