Example sentences of "second [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the second course he was back on a normal diet , gaining weight rapidly . |
| 2 | In the second part we begin to look at some of the arguments which have been developed about the possible effects of new technology on the kinds of jobs available in the future . |
| 3 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 4 | In the first case they had enough kinetic energy to make it ; in the second case they did not . |
| 5 | In the second case she judged the problem of a woman who had to choose between a mature knight of complete probity and a young man devoid of worth . |
| 6 | The day of the hearing of her second case she had been found dead . |
| 7 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 8 | On the first measure the poor were becoming poorer , while on the second measure they were becoming richer , though not to ine same extent as the rich . |
| 9 | The second reserve we visited was inland , although at one time the impressive limestone cliffs fringing the Hervey Nature Reserve had been coastal and some of the plants found here today reflect this marine ancestry . |
| 10 | The second bit I 've seen but I need to see the first bit . |
| 11 | When Ako Adjei , Adamafio and Crabbe were given a second trial they were condemned to death : but the sentence was commuted by Nkrumah to life imprisonment . |
| 12 | On his second wave he took a steep drop and his nose dug in . |
| 13 | That 's unusual is n't it , because I always think , I mean I , this is really only about the second watch I 've ever had good one . |
| 14 | and erm Marilyn will come down of course when she 's at , she 's worried as well about whether she 's going to get a job , cos er , I mean they need to have erm a second income I should think |
| 15 | Under the second category they considered investigations by private detectives , industrial espionage , technical surveillance devices , and finally computers . |
| 16 | Into the second category we can place Papez 's theory of emotion . |
| 17 | Mike has played eight games for Moseley and although they are in the Second Division we are satisfied with his form and fitness . ’ |
| 18 | At the second attempt he presented voters with a painstakingly worked out proposal which included among its measures the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society , the right of natives to govern themselves and reform of the senate . |
| 19 | At the second attempt she made the connection and heard the telephone begin to ring at the other end . |
| 20 | In between driving lessons — she passed her test at the second attempt she was much in demand as a babysitter by her sisters ' married friends while Sarah used her to make up numbers at her frequent dinner parties . |
| 21 | In one condition subjects were specifically instructed to engage in verbal rehearsal of these word pairs and in a second condition they were instructed to use visual imagery to relate the two objects . |
| 22 | In a second condition it was an unlikely completion of the sentence , while remaining both syntactically and semantically consistent with the context . |
| 23 | In Prague 's second spring it has been superseded by the hustle and bustle of an emerging democracy — a society full of the good , the bad and the ugly . |
| 24 | In our second study we sought to confirm our findings that group and individual cognitive therapy were equally effective . |
| 25 | I mean , on the second album we sometimes had as many as forty guitar tracks on one song . |
| 26 | The second card you turn over is the matching six and you have two pairs . |
| 27 | The second drawing I submit to your lively discernment is the indigo bush , from which a deep and lustrous shade of blue is obtained by a kind of alchemy . |
| 28 | If you are recalled for a second interview it is worth changing to a different outfit altogether if you can afford it or have something else suitable . |
| 29 | On the second sortie he made no mistakes and shot up the route like a man with a mission . |
| 30 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |