Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun prp] [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 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They take a three nil lead to Swansea for the second leg of their first round tie . |
| 10 | 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 . |