Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 2 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 3 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 4 | He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant . |
| 5 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 6 | My wife treats ours like a second handbag — it 's full of rubbish . |
| 7 | I think other people see you as a second class citizen . |
| 8 | Thus midday discovered me with a second scotch in my hand , a Pakki nightie round my waist , and a half-naked sex-stewardess straddling my thighs . |
| 9 | Oxford left it until the second half for their equaliser . |
| 10 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 11 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 12 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 13 | Sale' s 16–6 win over Bedford hoists them to the second promotion slot . |
| 14 | Villa won it in the second half . |
| 15 | Leo asked her for the second time . |