Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he posted the second letter now , before he took the Bakerloo line to Kilburn . |
| 2 | During the rest of the inter-war period , and indeed ever since , Labour politicians and commentators have attempted to explain why Ramsay MacDonald ditched the second Labour government and formed a National Government . |
| 3 | Soon he was cannoning off lime trees and , as they passed the second gates , crashed into the left-hand gatepost . |
| 4 | On 14 May 1992 the Russian Parliament finally passed the second and final hearing of the Computer Program and Database Protection Law . |
| 5 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 6 | History will also record that Europe also shared the second series of Fourballs but only after the Americans came within a whisker of obliterating their lead altogether . |
| 7 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 8 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 9 | Indeed it was this economic growth which made the Second Empire so important for 19th- and even 20th-century France . |
| 10 | The 20-year-old lightweight , from manager Peter Reid 's home town of Liverpool , scored the first , made the second and was always trouble for Leeds . |
| 11 | Also here Nick Sellars and I respectively made the second and third ascents of Peter Gomersall 's outrageously steep Showtime , thinking the grade to be hard F8a+ . |
| 12 | The following day Lord Francis Douglas , who was to die later that week on the first ascent of the Matterhorn , made the second ascent , accompanied by Peter Taugwalder , the guide , Joseph Vian . |
| 13 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 14 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 15 | And then made the second just before half-time . |
| 16 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 17 | There were no windows in the thick stone walls and the sunlight which brightened the outer room in a single shaft directed through the open doorway hardly penetrated the second inner room . |
| 18 | ‘ So Black Will 's waiting 'is turn , is 'e ! ’ chortled the second voice . |
| 19 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 20 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 21 | The former title-holder , Jansher Khan , also from Pakistan , plays Bryan Beeson , who became the second Briton to reach the last eight by overcoming Jason Nicolle , 15-7 , 15-13 , 15-6 in a tussle of English giant-killers . |
| 22 | Ian Butterworth yesterday became the second Norwich player , after Gunn , to be punished by the club for newspaper comments about the brawl . |
| 23 | We barely knew any numbers at all at that time , but we got away with noise and after that we fast became the second loudest group in London playing gigs at Brighton , Hastings , Birmingham , Newcastle Tadcaster . |
| 24 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 25 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 26 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 27 | Mrs Cutforth became the second Mrs Tawell regardless of their feelings . |
| 28 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 29 | The consultant psychogeriatrician in the London Borough of Newham was one of those approached , and as he responded most quickly and positively , Newham became the second area in which the project was to be set up . |
| 30 | Looking unusually demure , Jennie Walker who became the second Mrs Tiller |