Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 2 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 3 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 4 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 5 | It took advantage of the country 's transferred preferential voting system by projecting itself as the second choice for the country 's growing number of Green voters . |
| 6 | The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War . |
| 7 | Manchester United looked like they had forced themselves into the second round of the UEFA Cup when they went two goals ahead after four spot kicks when Paul Ince and Denis Irwin buried their chances . |
| 8 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |