Sentence examples for been runner from inspiring English sources
noun
Agent noun of run; somebody who runs.
12.21am BST Mickelson has been runner up in a US Open five times.
"He has been runner up too many times.
Alongside Kelly Holmes, Paula Radcliffe and Christine Ohuruogu, Lewis is one of the current "golden girls" of British athletics and has twice (1998 and 2000) been runner up in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
[Laughs] I was runner up.
Nor were runners-up too shabby.
Bobby Moore has been runner-up four times, while Billy Bonds and Tony Cottee have both been runners-up three times.
He has been runner-up three times, not four.
It is the third time McGuire has been runner-up for a general manager's job.
He's been runner-up three years running, and no one has ever had four fruitless nominations.
Italy, with roughly the same population, has won four World Cups and been runner-up in a few more.
The Giants chose Rote, who had been runner-up for the Heisman Trophy as college football's top player.
