Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the second " in BNC.

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1 I try to come round the second thing .
2 ‘ Why , oh why , do I get mispatterning on the second side of my jumper ?
3 But I 've jumped off the second one , I have n't dived off the second one .
4 Well you see in an ideal situation of the six people I 've got on the second list there 's better quality people there but they 've got absolutely zero experience but we 're not the sort of company who can take these people on and train them really
5 I continued to stay in the Second Son 's bedroom in the villa .
6 All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war .
7 It is one of the world 's fastest-growing industries which has burgeoned since the Second World War , and especially since the 1960s .
8 The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention .
9 They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half .
10 What were these what was the sales area of the how much sales area did you actually release in the first half and how much do you expect to go in the second ?
11 ‘ Now we 've got two people who admit going to the second floor that afternoon : Pascoe and Hunter-Blair .
12 Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form .
13 He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise .
14 And she 's gone into the second years , you go there when
15 And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then .
16 I agreed and we arranged to go to the second house .
17 I have to say I enjoyed the first programme much more , simply because of the subject we had to discuss on the second one , which was Christmas .
18 Things do , of course , indeed they seem to succumb to The Second Law of Thermodynamics at a rate that must occasionally surprise even the most paranoid of entropy theorists .
19 ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’
20 Moderator the counter motion is in section four as it stands to stop in the second line after the word commentary .
21 He is not always reliable , but he may well be correct when he mentions that there were other candidates , including John of Salerno , cardinal priest of St Stefano in Celiomonte ( who he says withdrew from the second ballot ) , and possibly Jordan of Fossanova , former abbot of Ceccano , cardinal priest of St Pudenziana , and Gratian , cardinal deacon of SS .
22 The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War .
23 The windmill was sited near the school , but it had disappeared by the second half of the 18th century .
24 By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy .
25 For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War .
26 When this ounce was available for examination Dr Macdonald selected the largest piece , the one he had spotted in the second X-ray , deeply impacted into a piece of bone and buried inside the young man 's spleen .
27 He had started on the second chair when Dadda shouted up the stairs .
28 In the run-up to recognition , the commander of the Second Military District , General Milutin Kukanjao , hinted strongly that he wished to opt for the second option .
29 When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field .
30 When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field .
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