Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't need a single second . |
| 2 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 3 | Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide . |
| 4 | Despite having come a close second to every junior side in the county at least once over the years , as the senior side in the tournament it is hardly surprising that Athletico should have done remarkably well . |
| 5 | The passenger has always come a poor second to the operational integrity of the system . |
| 6 | The Liberal Democrat 's leaflet contains the customary barefaced lie : ‘ In the last four elections , local and national , we have come a good second . ’ |
| 7 | The sky was filled with dazzle and the colours changed every shimmering second . |
| 8 | In Balakirev 's Islamey , for instance , he allows the beautiful second subject to sing out , slower and more meaningful , than I have ever heard it before , while his deadly accuracy and exquisite pianissimos produce a stillness in Liszt 's Les Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este that is rare indeed for such a fast moving piece . |
| 9 | As a Mitsubishi dealer , I 'd remind you that this car won the 1989 Lombard RAC Rally and came a close second last year . |
| 10 | British Telecom partly-paid came a close second , volumes hitting 53m as the shares firmed 19 to 1191/2 ( after touching 126p ) . |
| 11 | Uncle Nick came a close second , Robin and Jenny joint thirds ; thinking of them all , Ruth ached with homesickness . |
| 12 | From left were Peter Marshall of Pitman Publishing ( third , 1.71 days ) ; Wendy Edge of International Thomson ( who came a close second with 1.68 days , and appeared to be very much the people 's choice ) ; Colin Marshall of Leicester University Bookshop ( who was responsible for collating the results and who collected the award on behalf of the absent Butterworth Law ) ; and Derek Hall of Addison-Wesley ( fourth , 1.72 days ) . |
| 13 | The Democratic Left Alliance , a party of former Communists , came a close second to the post-Solidarity party of former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , the Democratic Union . |
| 14 | She says the Liberal Democrats came a close second last time and believes the mood on the ground is one of dissatisfaction with the Conservatives which will give her the swing needed to gain the seat . |
| 15 | Unfortunately that was n't to be , I er we came a good second but there you go . |
| 16 | The Irish may have scored socially but they came a poor second on the field because , says DON CAMERON , they were not prepared for the speed and the impact of the N.Z. game . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I found out that I came a poor second to the real love of her life — money . |
| 18 | On the river the Emma Louise was making good speed … but at five mph , she came a worthy second … |
| 19 | In NME , it came a bad second to Cliff Richard 's sore throat and his summer season at the Palace Theatre , London . |
| 20 | She has not seen a single second of the Costa Del Sol soap since . |
| 21 | Wait a wee second . |
| 22 | Thus the advance is made a split second after discerning the opponent 's attack . |
| 23 | In Austria , Clay was the only leader to score any points , and in Italy , while Ronnie won his third race , Fittipaldi scored an important second place to keep his chances alive . |
| 24 | In the Masters he blew his chances by pushing an over-clubbed second shot into the crowd to take a bogey-five on the last hole and lose by a stroke to Jack Nicklaus after leading going into the last round . |
| 25 | Silkin 's Bill received an unopposed second reading in May ; for the Conservatives W.S. Morrison gave it general support . |
| 26 | I must say yo yo you never , unless you 've got a good second man er especially foaling time yo my son-in-law do n't leave the place . |
| 27 | Whittingham , who fired a three second burst from astern and then broke away . |
| 28 | On one Borrowdale route , Deja Vu , he left a long sling dangling down to aid an injured second . |
| 29 | Patrese , perhaps stung by Mansell 's superiority in previous races , showed no sign of accepting a comfortable second this time and swept into the lead at the Curva do Sol on the opening lap , leaving Mansell in close pursuit ahead of Senna , Schumacher , Alesi and Brundle . |
| 30 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |