Example sentences of "finish second " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We could finish second or seventh . |
| 2 | The Ferrari of Gerhard Berger finished second , 26 seconds ahead of Alain Prost 's McLaren . |
| 3 | If Senna had not either won the race or finished second , he would have been out of the championship . |
| 4 | JIMMY McCRAE , of Scotland , won the 2,200-mile round-Britain Autoglass Tour by 22 minutes at Brands Hatch yesterday when he finished second to Wales 's David Llewellin in the final stage . |
| 5 | They won the King 's Cup in 1987 , and the next year finished second to Real Madrid in the League . |
| 6 | Line Of Vision , who finished second to the highly rated Argentum at Nottingham , should do best of the pair , but may fail to hold the impressive Brighton winner , Alysardi ( 3.40 ) , who at $205,000 as a yearling , cost almost 10 times as much . |
| 7 | His main opposition came from Lancia 's Didier Auriol and Miki Biasion , who finished second and third . |
| 8 | At Rouen the fuel filters were so good that they took all the dye out of the fuel and became clogged , so we only finished second . |
| 9 | Britain trail New South Wales by 21.5 points but there is a protest outstanding against one of the NSW boats , Cyclone , which finished second in the race but is alleged to have fouled the Hong Kong yacht Foo2 , the former Jamarella . |
| 10 | He finished second in the 100 metres to Canada 's Ben Johnson , later disqualified after failing a drug test . |
| 11 | Since that lapse , Docklands Express has won the Whitbread Gold Cup ( controversially , on the disqualification of Cahervillahow ) and the Racing Post Chase , and finished second in the King George VI Chase in addition to his fine Gold Cup display . |
| 12 | Grubb , who has lived in the United States for some years , was brought into the British team that finished second in the Los Angeles Olympics , and will be coming to Britain hoping to make the Barcelona team . |
| 13 | ELIZABETH ARNOLD gave Nova Centurion a fighting chance of winning the Mycil Women 's British Club Team Championship in Sheffield last night when she finished second in the 800m freestyle . |
| 14 | Grubb , a member of the team who finished second in the Los Angeles Olympics , rode Ever in the 1991 World Cup final in Gothenburg , but afterwards the 11-year-old stayed in Europe , to be ridden by his owner , Enrique Sarasola . |
| 15 | Daz Sumner , of Middlesbrough , finished second with 13 points , followed by David Blackburn ( Berwick ) with 12 and Wayne Carter ( Wolverhampton ) on 11 . |
| 16 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 17 | What a year it proved to be : he won the PGA at St Georges , and finished second on the Order of Merit . |
| 18 | Oates and team-mate Richard Longman finished second in class of an aggregated result at the end of the two legs . |
| 19 | He finished second to Duke Of Monmouth in the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham in March , and will be spot on after finishing fifth on the Flat in the Leopardstown November Handicap . |
| 20 | His car was thoroughly competitive , he won pole position again , and this time — after a hard end-of-race charge after Lauda 's Ferrari — Hunt finished second and his team-mate Jochen Mass third . |
| 21 | Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield , who led the list last year , finished second with £18.5 million . |
| 22 | Another Coral made an encouraging seasonal debut last month when going down by seven lengths to Tipping Tim at Cheltenham — a race in which he also finished second last year — and is now 11lb better off with that rival . |
| 23 | The Cool Customer finished second in an Open Intermediate class yesterday and Hollingsworth was also in the money on Sir William Aldous 's Solo Performance . |
| 24 | The Speake brothers William and Douglas , from the host club , finished second and third . |
| 25 | But then Myverygoodfriend finished second and after Galway Star had become their fourth odds-on scorer , Passed Pawn failed in the last race . |
| 26 | COLIN Jackson and Linford Christie sparkled as battling Britain finished second in the World Cup here in Havana last night . |
| 27 | Drum Taps ( Frankie Dettori ) finished second to Sought Out in the Prix Kergorlay with Michelozzo third . |
| 28 | Runner-up three times , Mansell finished second in the Hungarian Grand Prix — enough to clinch the world drivers ’ title and become the first British champion since James Hunt in 1976 . |
| 29 | He finished second in the 1988 Superstars , losing by a whisker in the final event . |
| 30 | In six seats it finished second , with a best performance of 22 per cent in Bethnal Green East . |