Example sentences of "playing second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pozsgay was simply fed up with playing second fiddle , a characteristic that was to re-emerge later . |
| 2 | ON A London Saturday , an unknown and unsigned dance band called Motion Incorporated were supposedly playing second billing to My Jealous God , and ended up catapulting themselves into the crowd 's heart . |
| 3 | Used to playing second fiddle to its Mitsubishi rival and happily mopping up any disappointed Shogun buyers who failed to get their hands on one of the current quota , the Trooper has still etched itself a firm place in the off-roader scene and remains , as it usually has been , an underestimated vehicle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was in 1947 that he appeared in It Happened in Brooklyn , playing second fiddle to a scrawny thirty-one-year-old bobbysox idol with hollow cheeks , Frank Sinatra . |
| 6 | The Norwegian international goalkeeper is worried that playing second fiddle to Ian Walker at Tottenham will harm his World Cup prospects of playing against England in October . |
| 7 | She might also have simply got tired of playing second fiddle to the Prince 's pastimes . |
| 8 | He had been a reluctant ally and may well have resented playing second fiddle to his younger brother . |
| 9 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 10 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would imply that the team playing second would know *exactly* what they would have to do to qualify . |
| 13 | The return of Tony Hanson to the team that lost in the last five seconds at Broxbourne could be the inspiration , but with Doncaster playing second placed Oldham and Plymouth at fourth placed Brixton , the two teams above them could well lose ground . |