Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] third place " 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 This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division .
5 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 ) .
6 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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