Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King was to stay in the Deanery , and the modest but elegant house nearby of the bachelor Prebendary Ken appeared a convenient place in which to billet Nell Gwynne , who ranked about third among the King 's mistresses . |
| 2 | Wattana , who moved into third place , could overtake Hendry and Davis at the top if he wins his two matches in hand . |
| 3 | Des Walker put his Spanish problems behind him as Sampdoria moved into third spot thanks to a 2-1 win at Udinese , while Lazio , minus Paul Gascoigne , registered their third consecutive draw . |
| 4 | New Zealander Greg Turner moved into third place on 13 under with a birdie , his sixth of the day , at the last . |
| 5 | Holders Sweden moved into third place at 11 under , while Wales are joint fourth with Australia a shot further back . |
| 6 | Livingstone , sent home from Barcelona in July after testing positive for drugs abuse , yesterday trained with Third Division club Cardiff City . |
| 7 | Coming out of the corner , the white needle went over the red line at 4,000 revs and , in my panic , I changed from third to fifth . |
| 8 | Their absence cost ‘ Quins , who lost 25–14 , a victory which enhanced the Saints ’ title ambitious as they moved to third in the table , one point behind leaders Orrell . |
| 9 | CASTLEFORD moved to third place , beating BRADFORD 30–20 — their second win in 14 days over their championship rivals . |
| 10 | And some of the worst excesses during this period came from Third World governments , such as Sanjay Ghandi 's notorious sterilisation campaign in India in 1976 . |
| 11 | The numbers of TNCs based in Third World countries , particularly the NICs , has grown rapidly in recent years , and some Third World TNCs are extremely large and wield considerable influence ( Lall , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | Norman Ferguson slotted into third place , ahead of former Northern Ireland champion Robert Dickson . |
| 13 | Claire took part in the European Junior Masters in Brussels in May , a tournament held for national champions , where she finished in third place . |
| 14 | Ewing and McCracken now have 41 points in the championship , four more than Fletcher and Erwin who share second place with Alan McCann and Philip Murray who finished in third place last night . |
| 15 | Wrexham finished in third place overall with 167 points , behind Rotherham ( 231 ) and Preston ( 215 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It began in third grade , ’ said Dick … |
| 17 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 18 | But Pond Pavarotti , which qualified in third place , is up against second favourite to win the classic , Glengar Ranger , and another top notcher , Taringar Bay . |
| 19 | Rainey 's Italian team-mate Luca Cadalora won today 's event , holding off a late charge by Doohan while Schwantz settled for third after throttling back because of problems with his front tyre . |
| 20 | THE GREAT Cordoba bubble burst with the impact of an exploding bomb as Sheikh Mohammed 's heavily hyped colt trailed in third behind the 20-1 outsider , Balla Cove , in yesterday 's Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket . |
| 21 | In Canada , Niki narrowly lost out to Nelson Piquet and Prost trailed in third ; on Detroit 's bumpy street circuit , which Niki liked no better than he liked Monaco , Piquet scored a double . |
| 22 | Sobers bowled to Willis , was clumped back over his head for two then steered to third man for two , and England were home with three balls to spare . |
| 23 | He was followed by Hep Porter in Wagner Solution , Sitting Duck , and 1990 Gold race winner Jim Miller flew to third place in JM-2 No 14 Pushy Cat at 231.012mph . |
| 24 | The Proprietor has the right to make copies of audio and video components of the Work for use within its institution for its own teaching programmes but such copies will neither be sold nor lent to third parties . |
| 25 | He was drilling the car through a bend at 90mph when he went for third gear — and hit first at 7,000 revs . |
| 26 | Australian John Fahey , who won this year 's Pacific League and also received a special award for having competed in 100 World Cup qualifiers , went into third place in the speed warm-up with a rousing gallop of Tony Barlow Sorrento . |
| 27 | The document also asserts that Pearl 's market position in new annual premiums for UK life and pensions business fell from third in 1978 to 15th by 1988 . |
| 28 | Darcy , in second place overnight , took 74 and O'Connor fell from third to 25th after crashing to an embarrassing 80 . |
| 29 | The results of these forces are , they argue , felt in Third World countries and simultaneously in the UK and other European and North American economies ( their empirical research relates mainly to the Federal Republic of Germany ) . |
| 30 | In the first round I eased in third behind Pavoni and Bryzgin . |