Example sentences of "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 | He defeated the emigré businessman Stanislaw Tyminski , who had surprisingly come second in the first round of the elections held on Nov. 25 [ see pp. 37840-41 ] , by 10,622,696 votes ( 74.3 per cent ) to 3,693,098 ( 25.7 per cent ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even if a British judge had travelled abroad , Cheltenham may still have come second . |
| 11 | Ari Vatanen has come second and Colin McRae sixth … a good performance … but the British fans were hoping for more as Tim Russon now reports |
| 12 | So two years after they married and as the couple face divorce , Isabelle Duchesnay is a sadder and wiser woman , aware now that she would always have come second to his work in her husband 's affections and that , because of her role in Chris 's life , Jayne Torvill turned into the spectre at the feast . |
| 13 | the District has come second , out of 90 in the country , in the ‘ Most Improved ’ category of the British Gas Gold Flame awards . |
| 14 | I 've come second |
| 15 | Well Shell 's bank has come second |
| 16 | Yeah even though she 's down on the bottom she 's bound to of come second |
| 17 | ours and so erm so they , so we would have come second had we had an , had we had an audience , I mean that 's the ridiculous thing , it 's the content , nothing to do with what , you know , the environment is it ? |
| 18 | Lester Piggott has come second in his return to racing at Leicester this afternoon . |