Example sentences of "second [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second truck appeared behind the first , and a third behind that . |
| 2 | The Italians keep a second striker lurking behind the first . |
| 3 | On 15 May , in a second telegram continuing from the first [ KP 120 ] , he reported on his " brief flying visit to General Keightley at Headquarters 5th Corps at Klagenfurt " . |
| 4 | All this has resulted in our profit for the Division being significantly higher in the second half compared with the first half of the year . |
| 5 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 6 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 7 | The second factor relates to the first and concerns the make up of the team . |
| 8 | Thus the signalman was prevented from inadvertently releasing signals for a second train to enter before the first was clear . |
| 9 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |