Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
4 | There was a marketing push in December that took it to third spot but by January the Escort was back to fifth position , behind even the aged Vauxhall Astra . |
5 | And they ca n't rely on goal difference , which saved them from Third Division football in 1938 . |
6 | And they ca n't rely on goal difference , which saved them from Third Division football in 1938 . |
7 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
8 | 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 ) . |
9 | 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 . |