Example sentences of "in [pos pn] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my second thoughts my aims remain the same , but are more thoroughly developed : and all these grovelling references to ‘ great ’ historians and their ‘ brilliant ’ works have been extirpated . |
| 2 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |
| 3 | At the time of going to Budapest I was still only in my second month of strict diet and had another five weeks left . |
| 4 | I am now in my second term . |
| 5 | ‘ I scored 24 goals in my first season with Portsmouth , 20 in my second , but only 13 last year , ’ explained Whittingham , 28 , himself a former physical training instructor as an Army corporal . |
| 6 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
| 7 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
| 8 | The above information along with detailed plans , rules of the game and building instructions for table skittles and 20 other interesting and original projects , can be found in my second book ‘ Making Wooden Toys For All Ages ’ which is published by David & Charles , Brunel House , Newton Abbot , Devon . |
| 9 | In my second year matters came to a head . |
| 10 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
| 11 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
| 12 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 13 | ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks . |
| 14 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
| 15 | That took up an awful lot of time in my second year , although it was good fun . |
| 16 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 17 | THREE years ago to the day , England last did battle with Argentina at Willesden in their second game in the World Cup . |
| 18 | England 's women gave a disappointing display in their second match against the Soviets at Luton , losing 2-1 . |
| 19 | GOVERNMENTS often lose momentum in their second term . |
| 20 | In their second year , Robyn and Charles moved off campus and set up house in a small flat in Brighton , commuting to the University by local train . |
| 21 | In 1989 , 6% of children were born to women in their second or later marriage . |
| 22 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 23 | Students take units from three of these courses in their first year , and from two of them in their second year . |
| 24 | Students take a series of core units in their second and third years . |
| 25 | Students taking French as a minor subject are expected to spend four to six weeks in a French-speaking country , normally in their second year . |
| 26 | As all these , including buddleia , flower in their second year they soon supply more seeds to the young sward . |
| 27 | They were in their second week when a nurse came one morning to take Anna Beckett over to the infirmary to see a physician . |
| 28 | India were reduced to 71-6 in their second innings , a lead of just eight runs by the close of the third day in the third Test at Port Elizabeth . |
| 29 | They were 32-1 at the close after bowling Australia out for 196 in their second innings . |
| 30 | Shreeves ' side have another day 's advantage on the other British teams involved in Europe as they do n't meet Porto in their second round second leg tie until Thursday night . |