Example sentences of "came [prep] [art] second " in BNC.

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1 But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us .
2 The only break in his time at the store , also known as the Man 's Shop , came during the Second World War when he joined the RAF and served in the Middle East .
3 His move into intelligence came during the Second World War in which he served as a colonel and worked with Eisenhower 's Supreme Allied Headquarters .
4 On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) .
5 The turning point came in the second quarter , he said , but loss of confidence as a result of the exchange rate crisis hit UK recruitment in the fourth quarter , although it is now starting to grow again .
6 Zhelev 's victory came in the second round run-off , when he won 53 per cent of the vote against 47 per cent for Velko Valkanov , an independent supported by the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party .
7 This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year .
8 A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages .
9 There were few moments to excite the crowd and the only note of controversy came in the second set when McNeil received a warning for slamming the ball out of court as she trailed 3–1 .
10 The chance for a local winner came in the second race , the Arkle Challenge Trophy .
11 Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron .
12 They came to the second door .
13 Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels .
14 In 1899 Watson came on a second tour and this time went to the far west .
15 Lloyd soon followed for 84 , but then King and Murray continued the torment , and , when the declaration came on the second evening , the score was 687 for 8 , still the West Indies record against England .
16 The attack came on the second day of a planning appeal on behalf of the town 's Sundial Hotel .
17 The crunch game came at the second hurdle when Sudbury toppled the mighty London Welsh at Moorsfield , after which they have gone from strength to strength , bolstered by a refreshing brand of running rugby .
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