Example sentences of "came second [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also came second on the day , but I 'm sure a lot of people would like to have seen him win . |
| 2 | Great Britain 's Anni MacDonald-Hall came second on Floriano . |
| 3 | The third and fourth year girls ' team ( Bryony Parkyn , Debbie Hopkins , Esther Gilbert , Ruth Baker , Sarah O'Boyle and Katherine Greenwood ) came second at the Shropshire Schools races at Much Wenlock . |
| 4 | British Gas , on 76 per cent recall , came second with its scenes of celebrities ‘ in control ’ as they flicked their fingers to reveal a blue flame . |
| 5 | Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent . |
| 6 | A former World Bank official , Marc Bazin , of the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress , came second with 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 7 | Kravchuk gained 61.59 per cent of the votes , beating six other candidates , including the Ukrainian nationalist , Vyacheslav Chornovil , who came second with 23 per cent . |
| 8 | The Gibraltar Social Democrats ( GSD ) , led by Peter Caruana , came second with 20.2 per cent ; the newly formed Gibraltar National Party ( GNP ) received 4.7 per cent ; and an independent candidate , the only member of the Association for Advancement of Civil Rights — the party which had held power until 1988 — to contest the election , gained 2.0 per cent . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The MDF candidate came second with 17.3 per cent . |
| 11 | Ivo Bizjak of the Christian Democratic Party ( SKD ) came second with 21 per cent , and Jelko Kacin of the Democratic Party ( DS ) took third place with 7 per cent . |
| 12 | The two privatised Scottish electricity companies also did very well — ScottishPower was the top-ranked electricity company with a score of 709 points , and Scottish Hydro-Electric came second with 508 . |
| 13 | In her first run in the Sheikh 's colours she came second to Katies in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and in October was a strong-finishing second , beaten a neck , to Palace Music in the Champion Stakes . |
| 14 | A tall , well-built mare , she first encroached on the English racing scene in spring 1983 : she came second to Sabin Du Loir in the Sun Alliance Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival ; three weeks later , ridden by her trainer 's son Tony , she ran on successive days at Liverpool , winning on the Friday and the next day running Gaye Brief , fresh from his Champion Hurdle success , to a length . |
| 15 | It can take some comfort from the rise of 7.5 per cent in its vote and from the fact that it came second to Labour in so many seats and is at last beginning to nibble at Labour 's huge majorities in the Central Belt . |
| 16 | We came second to France in our heat , qualifying easily . |
| 17 | In a list of favourite boys ' books compiled by Edward Salmon in 1888 , Kingston came second to Dickens , and Salmon observed , ‘ Mr Kingston is Captain Marryat transformed from a novelist into a juvenile romanticist ’ . |
| 18 | Decision : the need to deter other people from carrying out similar acts outweighed the effect of the sentence on the appellant 's future prospects : the appellant 's personal position came second to the public interest in deterring others minded to act as he did . |
| 19 | In 1987 the Lib Dems came second to the Conservatives in two thirds of the seats and this time they look like the main challengers . |
| 20 | PAUL TSONGAS decided yesterday not to re-enter the US presidential election , despite his strong showing in the New York Democratic primary , where he came second without campaigning . |
| 21 | Mr Rollins , the assistant tourism director , asked everyone he met what they associated with Cheltenham : horses and educated ladies came second by a length to spies . |
| 22 | America , number one in 1989 , came second in 1990 , with exports of $394 billion ( 11.4% ) . |
| 23 | I came second in the UK Astroid Championships . |
| 24 | An England representative team came second in the strongest open tournament of the year in Berne , Switzerland , to break the familiar stranglehold on the top prizes by players from the former Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Reserve Winners Dog The dog who came second in the Winners Dog 's original class competes with the dogs remaining in the ring , ( unless he has already been defeated by one of them ) , for Reserve Winners . |
| 26 | Seve had just the right sort of build-up to the 1979 Open at Lytham : he won the English Classic at The Belfry , the first time it was played , and then he came second in the Scandinavian Open in Sweden . |
| 27 | Ironic that , because Seve won an event and Sandy came second in it , just before the 1985 Open . |
| 28 | THE Senior team from Churcher 's College in Petersfield came second in the district final of the Rotary Club 's Youth Speaks competition on Friday at Southampton University . |
| 29 | Another Stephenson , Alyson , came second in 1985 . |
| 30 | In fact , Labour came second in seven out of ten council seats , and in the Euro elections , the SLD came fourth behind the Greens . |