Example sentences of "[vb past] come second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice he had come second to Martin Potter , once at Lacanau and again at Biarritz . |
| 2 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 3 | The former ruling League of Communists ( LC ) had come second with 75 seats . |
| 4 | On Sept. 30-Oct. 1 it had come second in a rival poll for a National Congress , behind the National Independence Party ( which also boycotted the Oct. 28 elections ) . |
| 5 | Thiam , 58 , a former banker , named a 27-member power-sharing government the following day , bringing in opposition figures including the controversial Abdoulayé Wade , leader of the Democratic Party of Senegal ( PDS ) who had come second to Diouf in the presidential elections in both 1983 and 1988 . |
| 6 | The Workers ' Party ( PT ) , whose leader Luís Inácio da Silva ( " Lula " ) had come second to Collor in the December 1989 run-off presidential elections [ see pp. 37117-18 ] , made significant gains , but lost control of the local government of Sao Paulo and failed to win the mayoralty in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 7 | Emil Constantinescu , who had come second in the presidential elections in September [ see p. 39104 ] , was elected president of the main opposition alliance , the Democratic Convention ( DCR ) , on Nov. 27 . |
| 8 | On 5 December he received 44.6 per cent of the vote and was forced into a runoff election against Mitterrand , who had come second with 31.7 per cent . |