Sentence examples similar to had been runner from inspiring English sources

12.21am BST Mickelson has been runner up in a US Open five times.

"He has been runner up too many times.

How has being runner up in the New Film Makers award affected your career?

The Giants chose Rote, who had been runner-up for the Heisman Trophy as college football's top player.

The first was Tana Goertz, an Iowa woman who had been runner-up on the third season of The Apprentice. "What a good-looking crowd," she pandered.

The 11-year-old, who had been runner-up in the previous year's National, was behind double green screens as the field came past on the second circuit and it was at this point that Ruby Walsh, having been unseated from Ballycasey, played an unexpected and modestly heroic role.

Those that had been runners when they first tried cocaine, however, lost their preference slowly, if at all.

She is a native of Alabama, where she had been runner-up in the Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen Program, and non-finalist talent winner at Miss Alabama.

The 25-year-old golfer from Northern Ireland, who last won at the Dubai Championship in November 2012 to cap a remarkable year, had been runner-up in eight of his last 11 tournaments and did not collect a title in 2013.

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.