Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have capriciously given my second preference to a candidate of the Communist Party . |
| 2 | It has also just won its second national training award . |
| 3 | Form is no indicator , Arbroath having won their Second Division match with East Fife at Bayview this season before losing on their own ground to the Fifers . |
| 4 | Britain 's largest company , British Telecommunications Plc , has posted its second annual consecutive drop in profits for the year ending March 31 due to hefty redundancy charges , but is cautiously optimistic that the worst may now be over . |
| 5 | Penny strode on , regretting the flush that had risen to her cheeks , wondering if she had received her second tentative approach that afternoon . |
| 6 | About this time the Club was given its second trophy and which today is known as the Lovell Bowl . |
| 7 | It seems but yesterday that the Bill was given its Second Reading on 26 November , yet there has been a great deal of debate of its contents . |
| 8 | A Bill , which would allow companies to charge interest on commercial debts that remain unsettled after 30 days , has received its second Reading . |
| 9 | A few months later H. L. Davison , the public assistance officer , reported to the Institution Committee that the new National Assistance Bill had received its second reading in Parliament . |
| 10 | Having received its second reading , the Bill went to Committee where many amendments were tabled , such as the raising or lowering of the age of consent , but few were accepted . |
| 11 | Behind the scenes , many who sit on the Conservative Benches are betraying their concern even before the Bill has received its Second Reading . |
| 12 | It has recently suffered its second round of layoffs , trimming staff to 15 from a high of 31 some months ago , so it can achieve profitability by the end of the fourth quarter . |
| 13 | She had made her second husband 's life a hell , it seemed . |
| 14 | The American Association for Recorded Sound Collections has made its second Lifetime Achievement award to Brian Rust , citing him as probably the most prolific discographer in the world and recognizing his extraordinary contribution to the field . |
| 15 | FIREMEN have made their second handcuff rescue in two weeks . |
| 16 | For the Crown Prince was far from having shot his second bolt . |
| 17 | I had my first dog for 18 months and have had my second one for 3½ years . ’ |
| 18 | I have now had my second Chinese haircut , and am looking a suitably shorn lamb , but still bearded , and therefore sufficiently odd from the Chinese point of view . |
| 19 | This month Evans has had its second downgrading of the year . |
| 20 | The issue is the key feature of the Human and Embryology Bill which has just had its second reading in the House of Lords . |
| 21 | She was Manisha , a Muslim girl of twenty from Sylhet , and had just had her second child . |
| 22 | Claire Bartel ( Sciorra ) has just had her second baby and needs a nanny so she can get on with her hobby of building a greenhouse . |
| 23 | Arthur said he 'd never had their second message , and the fuss all died down , but he 's always come when we 've sent for him . ’ |
| 24 | It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby . |
| 25 | Though the firms eventually chose America 's General Dynamics ( having had their second choice , McDonnell Douglas , and their first choice , going it alone , overruled by the Japanese government ) , the group also looked at the Panavia Tornado , the Anglo-American Harrier it and the Swedish Gripen . |
| 26 | But Edinburgh has begun to produce music of note : The Chimes have just celebrated their second number one on the Billboard dance charts , and Paul Haig has recently completed sessions with Curtis Mantronik and Lil Louis . |
| 27 | He set up home with his wife Kerry at RAF Lyneham and they would have celebrated their second wedding anniversary later this month . |
| 28 | He leaves a wife , Kerry , with whom he would have celebrated his second wedding anniversary this month . |
| 29 | A joint enterprise with the Co-operative Wholesale Society , such was the prestige of the WTA 's reputation and the skill of the promotional machine that 5,000 bookings were taken in the first year , at prices two-thirds those of Billy Butlin , who had opened his second camp at Clacton the previous year . |
| 30 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |