Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 2 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 3 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 4 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 5 | As I get out of the second tube I see someone has been scratching letters off the sign above the door . |
| 6 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 7 | I move now to the second strand of my paper : a consideration of the 1988 Act . |
| 8 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 9 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 10 | Responsibilities , I mean , it would have to be torn down and build up again it was in such a bad shape , it was really , I mean , terrible , it must of been , it was , it was man who lived in since the second world war , alright , so you get . |
| 11 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 12 | Tearaway : Tim Horan , who scored twice in the Second Test , proves too hot to hold — even for a tackler of Scott Hastings ' calibre |
| 13 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 14 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 15 | Divison Three leaders Llanivaloes include spinner Michael Jones and Ian Jones , who steps up from the second team , for the home encounter with Cound . |
| 16 | A nail-biter that will have you chewing down to the second knuckle . |
| 17 | Then she leaped away from the second rat , just in time . |
| 18 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 19 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 20 | We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year . |
| 21 | ‘ With the fear of God in us , we played passionately in the second half and ran out 3-2 winners , so Cloughie 's unpredictability in letting us stay up late on the Friday night was vindicated . ’ |
| 22 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 23 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 24 | Ladies and gentlemen , we just before we get on with the second part of the meeting when erm , meeting erm I think I ought to tell you that erm one of our committee members died a very short while back . |
| 25 | We turn now to the second example of the way in which rational expectations introduces restrictions which can be tested . |
| 26 | Now we go on to the second one . |
| 27 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
| 28 | For the time being , we move on to the second of our theoretical perspectives , the ethogenic approach . |
| 29 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 30 | So you know , these traditions die hard but I m but things had to change and they changed really after the Second World War . |