Example sentences of "come second " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since when has the interest of the United States come second , Pat ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Forests and woodlands come second only to the beach as a perfect place for an away-day , with four out of 10 people preferring to picnic in style , at a designated picnic site . |
| 5 | PUBLIC SPEAKERS COME SECOND |
| 6 | Come second , third , last and things would go your way from then on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Investigations are , by their nature , adversarial , and no matter how sensitive the workers are , when all eyes are focused on the needs of the child , the mothers come second . |
| 9 | They come second to his personal ambition and to the Conservative Party interest . |
| 10 | Now they come second , but I 'll admit it 's a close second . ’ |
| 11 | When you slice the ball , particularly if trying to hit too hard , the body wins , the hands come second and the poor old clubhead trails through third , usually in a wide open position . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's nice to get honours but as long as Derry bring the Sam Maguire Cup home that 's all that matters — personal displays come second to the performance of the team , ’ he maintains . |
| 13 | I mean we 've got kids and the kids got to come first and the adults come second |
| 14 | And if you win , you come second or third or fourth you get a big , you know them cameras , look like them . |
| 15 | but they come second |
| 16 | On Thursdays I go to music lesson and erm , we have this singing contest erm , we come second out of the first years , and we sung Mole in a Hole . |
| 17 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |