Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted . |
| 2 | I went in for it and I came third . |
| 3 | I came third . |
| 4 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 5 | Because of the shortage of money , we only sent two backstrokers to Antwerp in 1920 , and I came third in the trials , which were held in the open air pool at Southport , now a children 's playground . |
| 6 | I came third in the trials and only two swimmers were sent . |
| 7 | This time I finished third and this earned me my first indoor international , with a place in the 4 × 200 metres relay team , against West Germany . |
| 8 | I finished third in the Inter-Counties Championships . |
| 9 | I finished third from last in the section only beating the three pegs the other side of the bridge , come to mention it the bloke the other side of the bridge never caught a fish . |
| 10 | Now so what you 're going to do you work together but I would prefer you in twos and threes I think third person 's redundant . |
| 11 | Do n't know I won third prize on the draw and I |
| 12 | I ran third . |
| 13 | When I reach third in the World Championship I 'll be satisfied . |
| 14 | They used a different laser that produces shorter , more powerful pulses at a shorter wavelength , which let them generate third , fifth and seventh harmonics . |
| 15 | Further gloom was spread by Dutch consumer electronics giant Philips which revealed third quarter losses of £56.2m . |
| 16 | ‘ Western financial institutions operate a divide and rule policy : they strike sweetheart deals with individual governments which benefit Third World elites even though they harm the poor . |
| 17 | However this was the inevitable conclusion of its holding , which placed third parties in a ‘ caveat emptor ’ position in entering into treaties . |
| 18 | The services are a collection of interface technologies which allow third party networking products to plug into Solaris 2.0 running on Sparc RISC and the Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms it will also support . |
| 19 | Included in the $800 price-tag for a single desktop version of Solaris 2.0-on-Sparc is SunOS 5.0 — SunSoft 's Unix SVR4 — plus the Open Network Computing , ONC , environment , NFS network file system , NIS+ naming service , a transport-independent remote procedure call , Solaris Federated Services — which allow third party networks , such as Novell Inc NetWare , Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment and OSI to plug into Solaris 2.0 — multi-threading , symmetric multi-processing , Kerebos security , disk mirroring and striping , real-time support and internationalisation . |
| 20 | Tool extremes : Richard Meighan 's gouge and Alan Toplin 's Bosch drill which won third prize , and £100 of Kirchen carving tools |
| 21 | This gives rise to special problems in the area of the supply of goods which infringe third party intellectual property rights , where the UCTA applies . |
| 22 | This being the case , it is not possible simply to exclude or , indeed , restrict , liability for the supply of goods which infringe third party intellectual property rights . |
| 23 | Further , in some Australian languages there are up to four distinct sets of primary ( as opposed to special supplementary ) kin terms : ( a ) a set of vocative terms , ( b ) a set of terms which have an implicit first person possessive feature ( i.e mean " my mother 's brother " , etc. ) , ( c ) a set of terms which have a second person possessive feature ( i.e. mean " your mother 's brother " , etc. ) and ( d ) a set of terms which have third person possessive features ( i.e. mean " his or her mother 's brother " , etc . ) . |
| 24 | Sheffield Wednesday , curiously , were the most prolific scorers , but only one goal ahead of Luton , finalists for the past two seasons , who defeated Third Division Mansfield 7-2 ( 11-5 on aggregate ) . |
| 25 | After three ballots , the new president of the Senate , who ranks third in the French political hierarchy , was … |
| 26 | Mr Livingstone was replaced by John Prescott , the transport spokesman , who came third and said he would work for organisational and campaigning reforms in the party . |
| 27 | Second-placed Barbara Hayward from Huntingdon won £75 of gift vouchers and Liz Knights from Wisbech , who came third , a £50 gift voucher . |
| 28 | Of the other parties , the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( which had won 57 per cent of the vote in the last free election in 1945 — see p. 7600 ) , led by Istvan Prepeliczay , advocated the return of collectivized land to its owners as listed in the 1947 land register ; the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was established in October 1989 [ see p. 36960-61 ] as the reformed successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) and currently claimed 50,000-60,000 members , the first candidate on its national list being Imre Poszgay , who had acted as a catalyst for many of the reforms but who came third in the constituency where he was also standing ; and the League of Young Democrats ( FIDESZ ) , led by Viktor Orban and claiming 5,000 members , was closely allied to the SzDSz . |
| 29 | It seems you confuse Third World countries . |
| 30 | In 1984 she came third in class in the Yachting Monthly Triangle and in 1985 she came second in class in the Round Britain Race , taking part in Ann Frazer 's Contessa 32 Gollywobbler . |