Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 9 Labour leader Neil Kinnock claimed in the House of Commons that the reforms meant that the clinical needs of patients were coming second to commercial considerations . |
| 2 | But the developmentalists , too , were having second thoughts . |
| 3 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 4 | And if , at first , she had had to remind herself to be careful not to be found out , deceit was becoming second nature to her . |
| 5 | I was refusing second helpings of food , asking unfailingly for small helpings , and skipping optional meals like tea or Sunday breakfast . |
| 6 | The last time I saw him was at Pine er was at on the as T V series at Pinewood , where he was acting second unit director . |
| 7 | The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning . |
| 8 | So immediately after launching the competition , Hall was having second thoughts about it , and on 28th March , only a fortnight after its inception , wrote an extraordinary letter to the Treasury , killing it off completely . |
| 9 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 10 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 11 | Wantonly she twisted her arms around his neck , revelling in the great shudder of desire she felt in response , but with surprise she quickly became aware that he was holding back , almost as if he was having second thoughts . |
| 12 | It was felt that the Clauses which neutralized the Black Sea and prohibited Russia from maintaining warships within its confines were more advantageous to Britain than to France and that once again France was playing second fiddle . |
| 13 | He was having an increasingly similar role to play in his other work , even though in the ‘ Carry On ’ pictures he was just one of a team and in Beyond Our Ken was playing second fiddle to the other Kenneth . |