Example sentences of "[conj] come [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race . |
| 2 | Health , education , and social services were issues that came second only to unemployment in terms of public priorities . |
| 3 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 4 | It was the shock of being included , of being swept up in the word women that came first . |
| 5 | There was one particular teacher ; if you done sports for him , that came first . |
| 6 | That is an appropriate metaphor for the club v country division that came next . |
| 7 | I 'd like to see the people that came next . |
| 8 | You 'd like to see the people that came next ? |
| 9 | Midge answered the telephone call that came next morning . |
| 10 | Anxious , because you know from past experience that when the convenient moment arrives for you to sow , the weather will turn wet or cold , even snowy , and effort and seed would be wasted , yet time is slipping by and the crops most worth raising are those that come first . |
| 11 | If C f changes to become like C i in some way , the assimilation is called regressive ( the phoneme that comes first is affected by the one that comes after it ) ; if C i changes to become like C f in some way , the assimilation is called progressive . |
| 12 | Y you make this political challenge and this sort of cultural attitude sort of challenges and then you will come on , and Mao 's very precise about this , it 's the political change that comes first |
| 13 | no well that comes last . |
| 14 | Within 18 months of taking up the sport , she was timed at 11.20 and 22.74 for the sprints , won medals in the Pan American Games and came fifth in the World Cup . |
| 15 | I ran the 100 metres at the Hammersmith Schools Sports and came second , being beaten by my schoolmate Victor Ajai . |
| 16 | He now competes regularly against adults too , and came second in the recent Cleveland championships in which most of the players were adult . |
| 17 | The PDS campaigned jointly with a Left List ( Linke Liste ) in Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony and Thuringia , finishing third in each case , and came fourth in Saxony-Anhalt , where the FDP recorded its best result . |
| 18 | In 1906 he stood for North Lambeth , where he split the Liberal vote and came third . |
| 19 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 20 | He had been president of the Council of State in 1982-83 under Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt and came third in the 1985 presidential elections [ see p. 34285 ] . |
| 21 | Daisy came to the World Championships with me in Sweden last year and came fourteenth in the under fifteen year old class — a good result for her first competition . |
| 22 | Michael Roberts was duly entrusted with the steering in the Newmarket Classic , but his mount was never going well and came eighth . |
| 23 | I resumed running in my fifth year at the school , winning the 200 metres in the school sports and coming second in the 100 and 400 metres . |
| 24 | Chris was chairman of his university society and competed regularly in Inter Varsity Dancing Association competitions around the country , helping to win last year 's team competition and coming third individually in the Rock and Roll competition . |
| 25 | But , though they are therefore ‘ more known to us ’ and come first ‘ in the order of our knowledge ’ , effects or appearances in fact depend on , and are secondary to , their causes . |
| 26 | Another runner to attract support was Run And Skip , who had won four races that season — including the Coral Welsh National at Chepstow — and come second in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup . |
| 27 | It was amazing that someone who had won the British Open three times and come second once over the past four years should have to qualify , but the boss just got on with the job . |
| 28 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 29 | The Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS — the successor to the former East German Socialist Unity Party — SED ) won 11.3 per cent overall ( but came second with 29.7 per cent in the east ) . |
| 30 | In the North West Division Two Deeside were also without a full squad but came fourth at Crewe and now lie sixth overall . |