Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after seeing second half goals from Anders Limpar and Ian Wright end his side 's Premier League duck , Graham said : ‘ When Arsenal are n't doing well the media seems to revel in it . |
| 2 | Mr Barrantes , 61 , bowed out of the 1985 presidential elections after coming second in the first ballot . |
| 3 | Commentators calculated that without tactical voting by supporters of the liberal Democratic Party ( which fell to third place after coming second in 1989 ) , the NP would have lost . |
| 4 | Nigel Mansell was certainly whacked yesterday … on the verge of collapse after coming second to Ayrton Senna in the Monacco Grand Prix |
| 5 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 6 | After grabbing second place on the grid alongside Alain Prost — who can clinch the title with a win |
| 7 | The majority of Wear Valley 's GPs do n't have anything like 7,000 patients due to Wear Valley being a rural community and so are in danger of becoming second class citizens . |
| 8 | Trading Standards officers say the case tragically illustrates the dangers of buying second hand electrical goods . |
| 9 | The game on Sunday is crucial to those ambitions of coming second . |
| 10 | I do n't know why I think maybe the , the tablets helped , but erm I was saying I was kind of having second thoughts whether I was wanting to go on the H R T or |
| 11 | It 's not unusual for man to be put in this position of taking second place . |
| 12 | She might also have simply got tired of playing second fiddle to the Prince 's pastimes . |
| 13 | I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it . |
| 14 | yeah , they 're not worth buying second hand I do n't think now because there 's so much wear on them is n't there ? |
| 15 | Mr Pozsgay was simply fed up with playing second fiddle , a characteristic that was to re-emerge later . |
| 16 | The relatively puny father-of-three could have been forgiven for having second thoughts when he was picked . |
| 17 | The other medal was for coming second in a canoe race . |
| 18 | ‘ You get no prizes for coming second . ’ |
| 19 | If your rockets are aimed at the rocket bases on the other side — a strategy known as ‘ counter-force ’ — there is no point in firing second , after those enemy rockets have been launched . |
| 20 | Allow to dry before applying second colour . |
| 21 | ( wes ad lib ) ( anne ) Still to come on Central News , the charities banned from selling second hand toys . |
| 22 | The boom in buying second homes in Europe has ended for the time being — the buyers wo n't be back until the UK economy recovers |
| 23 | Parkside were another team which benefitted from batting second , they put visitors Fisons in to bat and bowled then out for 62 , knocking off the runs for the loss of only one wicket . |
| 24 | Far from feeling second best , the Mexicans have taken up the challenge with vigour : ‘ We aim to be a cultural invasion of Frankfurt and the rest of Germany ’ , said the Mexican commissioner , Eugenia Meyer . |
| 25 | I ca n't quite see the reason for discounting second homes altogether as the D O E have done . |
| 26 | A delighted Sheelagh Cooley from Bangor Golf Club is congratulated by Irial Finan of Coca Cola and Maisie Nelson on scoring second net in the Coca Cola Girls ' Open Stroke Competition at Donaghadee Golf Club . |
| 27 | There is even a chapter on buying second hand — which has to be a boon for other Leica devotees . |
| 28 | People 's lives were Digital oriented : many had been there since finishing second level school or university … life outside Digital was unthinkable . |
| 29 | But whatever their collective response to coming second , no one could complain of losing to a Bath side so replete with experienced English caps and burgeoning talent . |
| 30 | The Czech , beaten at the last moment by the Australian , is congratulated on coming second and replies , ‘ But I did n't win . ’ |