Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 2 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 3 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 4 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 5 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 6 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 7 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 8 | Boxall and Tierney came back strongly in the second game , but the Blackmoor pair pulled away at 7–5 up to take the game 15–7 . |
| 9 | City came back strongly in the second with two goals in five minutes . |
| 10 | However , Tom gets on well with the second chef , who shares his general outlook , and this sets the tone of the kitchen . |
| 11 | Two fine headed goals from Paul Smith and Scott Leitch wrapped up the points in a hard-fought derby match at Central Park which saw Cowdenbeath 's Billy Herd ordered off early in the second half for a foul on Neale Cooper . |
| 12 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 13 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 14 | West Ham doing so well in the second division went to first division Luton , and by half time they were in front , a Pariss goal after forty three minutes , but Luton hit back in the seventieth minute through Black , and these two sides must replay . |
| 15 | There were no great men or women either , as Britain settled down resignedly into the second or even third-class status enjoyed by Venice , Spain , Sweden , Holland , and other failed empire-builders of the past . |
| 16 | Coleraine hit back early in the second half with a splendid strike from Cook . |
| 17 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 18 | City were well in contention when Jon Bland kicked a penalty to make it 6–3 but they fell away badly in the second half . |
| 19 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 20 | Centre Bill Harbinson went off early in the second half with a groin injury and could miss the rest of the season . |
| 21 | Welcome to Molyneux , Headley , Brian Horton 's with me , the United manager because he was brought up in this part of the world , must be very proud of what you brought up here for the second half Brian , but so disappointed after that first half showing . |
| 22 | The eternal flame went out yesterday for the second time since it was lit on July 26 last year . |
| 23 | Not only that ; that 's where they get their instructions , because sometimes some of them go out again for a second time to take part in another incident . |
| 24 | Perhaps I would be a bit churlish if I said that they could have scored even more in the second half , but that 's a minor complaint . |
| 25 | Three year-old Johnathan Ball died almost instantly in the second of the two explosions caused by a bomb hidden a litter bin . |
| 26 | The number of reported cattle thefts increased still further during the Second World War , when food prices increased dramatically . |
| 27 | These points are taken up again in the second chapter of Kingman , where it is argued that language ‘ expresses identity , enables co-operation , and confers freedom ’ , and that an understanding of language is vital to children 's intellectual , social , personal and aesthetic development . |
| 28 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
| 29 | Judit performed even better in the second half than the first . |
| 30 | He smiled lazily across at the second man from Six , directly opposite . |