Example sentences of "[noun prp] finished second " in BNC.

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1 Oates and team-mate Richard Longman finished second in class of an aggregated result at the end of the two legs .
2 Sonia finished second in the overall European Grand Prix series to American hurdler Sandra Farmer Patrick and for that she was handed a cheque for 50,000 dollars .
3 Earlier in the day Joey finished second to brother Robert in the Shell 125cc race after leading for the first three laps .
4 Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Gonzalez finished second and third in the 1951 World Championship but a year later Ascari won the title as Ferrari team-mates Farina ( Ita ) , Taruffi ( Ita ) and Fischer ( Swi ) occupied second , third and fourth places .
5 In the July 17 primary contest Young finished second with over 31 per cent of the total vote , but won only 15 per cent of the white vote .
6 But then Myverygoodfriend finished second and after Galway Star had become their fourth odds-on scorer , Passed Pawn failed in the last race .
7 COLIN Jackson and Linford Christie sparkled as battling Britain finished second in the World Cup here in Havana last night .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Clubmate Stewart Raven finished second in the competition for Under-17s and in the Under-15 contest , Robin Knight came third and Ipswich School sabreur Alisdair Cullen won the plate .
11 The Ferrari of Gerhard Berger finished second , 26 seconds ahead of Alain Prost 's McLaren .
12 Cheltenham finished second — and many in the town say it should have won .
13 Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 .
14 Hunt was put out of the new US Grand Prix ( West ) at Long Beach , following a shunt with Patric Depailler ( Fra ) as Lauda finished second to stretch his lead to 18 points .
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