Example sentences of "[vb past] a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of multinational corporations provided a second spur to Eurocurrency business . |
| 2 | Tenacious and long-memoried , they had not allowed themselves to be uprooted or changed a second time . |
| 3 | In Zborowski 's apartment in Nice , Modigliani drew a second portrait of Germaine , very similar , only this time she was wearing a black dress . |
| 4 | Lemert ( 1967 ) proposed a second component to the ‘ amplification spiral ’ — what he called ‘ secondary deviance ’ : a consequence of being officially labelled ‘ deviant ’ is that other people come to regard the labelled person differently , as a different kind of person . |
| 5 | During talks in Moscow in February 1986 the Iranian Foreign Minister proposed a second conference on Afghanistan , independent of the Geneva conference , which would be attended by Iran , Pakistan , the Soviet Union and the Afghan mujahidin . |
| 6 | I incurred a second funeral director 's bill the same week as I paid off the first . |
| 7 | Morrissey , in particular , found a second artistic release in his talent for dominating interviews . |
| 8 | Then , remembering her damaged thumb , she went back and examined the top rail , exclaiming aloud in excitement as she found a second thread clinging to the rough wood . |
| 9 | On third Reading , he moved a second amendment to make racially discriminatory behaviour by the police a specific disciplinary offence . |
| 10 | He conscientiously pinched the opposite fold of her sweet vulva , and fastened a second peg to her . |
| 11 | The same bench deferred a second application last month and will make a final decision on May 13 . |
| 12 | But what was good enough for the Kybergs was hardly likely to be good enough for the Habsburgs , so they built a second wall , only a few yards away . |
| 13 | The same typewriter had been used to address it , it bore a second class stamp and had been posted in London WC1 . |
| 14 | A COMPLETE confidence trickster 's set was discovered in the van of a man who allegedly used a second identity to defraud a bank of thousands of pounds , a court heard . |
| 15 | At the same time the university created a second demonstratorship to which Fenton was appointed . |
| 16 | And er so I shot back to the phone , tried a second partner finally the third partner in the solicitors firm that I deal with was there . |
| 17 | Apart from the inordinate length of those legs , and the firm muscularity of his biceps evident beneath the dark sweater , there was something about the thrust of that strong male jaw that invited a second look . |
| 18 | To the popular hit melody with the first line , ‘ It all passes by , it all fades away , ’ people added a second line : ‘ Hitler falls in April , the Party in May . ’ |
| 19 | In the second half , Liphook created more chances , but against the run of play Mytchett added a second goal . |
| 20 | Tim Breacker added a second 13 minutes later with a 25-yarder . |
| 21 | To this they tacitly added a second principle . |
| 22 | With the visitors defence still in disarray , Mark Hateley added a second one minute later . |
| 23 | John Gray scored the opener in the eighth minute and his Garvey team mate Brian Waring added a second goal two minutes from the end . |
| 24 | His first round 79 left him seven strokes off the pace set by MacPherson and two other southern players , and when he added a second round 75 , he was nine strokes behind his Cheshire team mate Dave Watson of Helsby , who started 73–72 . |
| 25 | If the firm was disappointed by this total , its chairman , Alfred Taubman , received a second blow . |
| 26 | Edwards denies this is the case , but in the September issue of Climber and Hill Walker , Mark Edwards was reported as having said he would not report any of his new routes ( or indeed whole areas of development ) until they received a second ascent . |
| 27 | This was the formative time of her life intellectually — she received a second class ( division I ) in part i of the economic tripos ( 1907 ) and a first in part ii ( 1908 ) — and emotionally , through enduring friendships formed . |
| 28 | In 1901 he won an exhibition to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he received a second class ( division I ) in part i of the moral sciences tripos ( 1904 ) and a first class in part ii ( 1905 ) . |
| 29 | In 1981 the brigade received a second hand fire engine from the local fire department and in 1989 public donations allowed them to buy a second reconditioned engine . |
| 30 | Of 11 rebleeders , three received a second epinephrine injection and two of them achieved haemostasis ( the failed case had successful surgical intervention ) ; six received epinephrine injection followed by pure alcohol injection and all achieved haemostasis ; two received surgical intervention directly ( one emergency operation because of massive bleeding and one elective operation because of adenocarcinoma of the stomach as well as a bleeding duodenal ulcer ) . |