Example sentences of "took the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 2 | ‘ We made it , ’ he said and took the second gun from Mariana 's shoulders without really looking at her . |
| 3 | Duffy won a black ball fight in the opener and took the second frame 62–40 before winning the next two easily with breaks of 35 and 57 in the third and 92 in the fourth . |
| 4 | Edberg had nothing to offer as Becker took the second set triumphantly in just 27 minutes to a great roar from the delirious crowd . |
| 5 | A former inmate of the Bloom yard , Lady Somerleyton 's Beau Seigneur , took the second Maiden under an enterprising ride from Lucy Hollis , who kicked for home at the fourteenth . |
| 6 | Matilda took the second slice and started eating it slowly . |
| 7 | In 1930 spectators during the second Cambridge innings in the University match at Lord 's were entertained by an unusual sight , when Oxford took the second new ball . |
| 8 | He took the second bite . |
| 9 | He took the second torch out of his jacket pocket and tossed it to Jimmy . |
| 10 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 11 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |