Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | MacPhail said : ‘ I twisted my knee early in the second half but I stayed on the field . |
| 2 | Devoid of ideas beyond booting hopeful balls forward in the first half , Alton got their act together in the second , coming from behind to take the points through sheer hard graft . |
| 3 | A warning was issued by the National Rivers Authority in Shrewsbury that the swollen River Severn was expected to burst its banks overnight for the second time in a week . |
| 4 | Ahl , 18 , from Exeter , outplayed her opponent particularly in the second set when she took the first five games . |
| 5 | His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 . |
| 6 | ‘ This is a fallen world , ’ J. R. R. Tolkien wrote to one of his sons early in the Second World War . |
| 7 | Then Yorkshire mounted a 49th-minute attack and , aided by a deflection , Robert Ward got his shot home at the second attempt . |
| 8 | It is interesting , however , that Ernest Man Del 's model of the stages of industrial capitalism ( 1975 : 108–46 ) , whose sequence of ‘ long waves ’ seems to correspond to the sequence of ‘ situations ’ described here , would locate our society now in the second half of the current ‘ wave ’ : and such periods are characterized , for him , by incipient crisis . |