Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 2 | Your own four-record set devoted to music of the Second Viennese School was , I know , one of your most cherished projects . |
| 3 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 4 | The only expatriate survivor from the old days was Sophie , a Pole whose family had lost all their property when the Communists came to power after the Second World War . |
| 5 | The church where Ramsey ministered was bombed to bits in the Second World War . |
| 6 | The draw for next season 's competition pits the holders against Lancashire in round one and — if they survive that hurdle — they travel to Essex in the second round . |
| 7 | Sell on a strike they say , so no doubt the time to sell 3DO Co Inc 's shares are as soon as the first marketable interactive multimedia home entertainment centres to the company 's standard are announced : the shares , floated at $15 , rose to $20.125 on the first day of trading going to $24 on the second day . |
| 8 | Although essentially the poor man 's housecow in Ireland , the breed was exported to England in the second half of the nineteenth century to become the rich man 's pet , favoured for its dainty good looks . |
| 9 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 10 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 11 | This instrument was known to Ptolemy in the second century AD , and — the underlying mathematical theory of stereographic projection can be traced back at least to Ptolemy 's great predecessor Hipparchus ( second century BC ) . |
| 12 | Neither owned any property , but from the fact that Elizabeth 's assessment was reduced to £30 for the second instalment of the subsidy in 1525 , while Thomas and Malyn were now taxed on 20 marks apiece , it is logical to deduce that they were her children , lately come of age . |
| 13 | Long words are less likely to be identified given current performance , but parts of these words will be , and they will correspond to homophones in the second set of valid words . |
| 14 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 15 | And so I went to sea for the second time . |
| 16 | M&J Ross and Son of Romesbeoch , Shawhead , Dumfries , received a 3,400gn bid for their Zora of Romesbeoch from J&JW Ions of Thorneyburn , Hexham and RT Lawson and Son , Airlies Farm , Wigtown , went to 2,800gns for the second prizewinner Zulu , the September l991 bull brought out by Ian Henderson of Langholm . |
| 17 | These persons are frequently referred to as " regular casuals " , although the term is also sometimes used to refer to people in the second category . |
| 18 | A native of Austria , Rixi Markus emigrated to London before the Second World War , and in 1950 became naturalised , eligible to represent her adopted country . |
| 19 | They take a three nil lead to Swansea for the second leg of their first round tie . |
| 20 | Value of new commissions awarded to architects for the second quarter of 1990 , showing the previous quarter ( left ) and the current quarter ( right ) , and the percentage difference between the two . |
| 21 | This is apparent in a striking passage of the Histories ( 6. 5 3–4 ) written by Polybius , a Greek exiled to Rome in the second century BC . |
| 22 | The new corporate body would have the power to set rates , decide on network design and development — and could refuse to interconnect with the second network . |
| 23 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |