Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 2 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 3 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 4 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 5 | They staggered through the second act . |
| 6 | They played throughout the second half in peeved mood , allowing Blackburn to assume the dictating role with Gordon Cowans prompting from midfield and Speedie in predatory form up front . |
| 7 | They came to the second door . |
| 8 | In the event , although both Charitable Trust and Council had given assent to the first advert on the policy agreed , they baulked at the second wave of recruiting , and sought to change the basis of our agreement . |
| 9 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 10 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 11 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 12 | But the practical components of the curriculum , whether in the medieval university or in courses of professional education as they developed after the Second World War , have been subsidiary elements in a much wider programme of studies ; and they have an internal connection with the general programme of theoretical studies . |
| 13 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 14 | Yesterday they lost for the second time when they fell 6-7 , 7-6 , 6-3 , 6-4 to Todd Witsken of the United States and Jorge Lozano of Mexico . |
| 15 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 16 | They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar . |