Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] third " in BNC.

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1 In other words you get into the rugby team because you happened to go third instead of fourth .
2 Halkopous , who had been in line with the first two turning for home , faded to finish third , with King Credo fourth .
3 Halkopous , who had been in line with the first two turning for home , faded to finish third , with King Credo fourth .
4 In response Soviet officials strove to convince third World states that entry into such alliances and the concession of military bases and facilities to Western states were counterproductive .
5 He only needed to make third to go through to the next round .
6 Joey managed to fill third place behind Scots rider Jim Moodie , who joined Carl Fogarty in scoring his first ever North-West win .
7 Roman law had found difficulty in accommodating dispositions which aimed to benefit third parties or to serve abstract purposes .
8 He had written an essay on ‘ Why I Am Proud to Be an American ’ , and he had won third prize .
9 Then I watched the re-run on the screen and saw that I had come third .
10 He was sworn into office on Jan. 14 , taking over from Vinicio Cerezo ( also a democratically elected civilian , of the Christian Democratic Party — PDCG — whose candidate had come third in the first round ) , together with his Vice-President and fellow evangelical , Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero .
11 Calvin Smith came in ahead of me but I beat the Pole Marian Woronin , who had run third at the previous European .
12 I thought that I had finished third , but when I studied the television slow-motion replay on the stadium scoreboard I could see that in fact Ray had won the bronze medal .
13 The Youngs , whose Slipperclub had finished third , were embraced by the hyperjoyous Unwins and were invited to their table , leaving the poor Flokatis to seek solace with others whose hopes had died on the last bend .
14 With my friends from home we had discussed Third World politics and our growing awareness of exploitation globally .
15 It was interesting that Fishwick Mona had just returned from the Great Yorkshire Show where she had stood third in a strong yearling heifer class .
16 This is true both of the mutual exchange of rights and obligations by the parties and of provisions intended to bind third parties .
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