Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion that he might make any joke , except an obscene one , I dismissed without a second thought . |
| 2 | ‘ I left college in ‘ 76 , and subsequently hustled around for about four months working for various people , before I heard of a second assistant 's job coming up with David Thorpe . |
| 3 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 4 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 5 | I went off the second board and I had to get out cos I felt sick . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't go , so I went to the second night . |
| 7 | After ten or fifteen minutes break with Susie when she chatted about her social life , I went to the second lesson . |
| 8 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 9 | I agree with the second part of my hon. Friend 's question . |
| 10 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 11 | erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War . |
| 12 | By inclination I belong to the second category , but I have learned that it makes all the difference to lay a firm foundation at the outset . |
| 13 | As I said on the second reading , I do believe that some areas will need to have larger authorities because of their size , or indeed their particular problems , geographical and otherwise . |
| 14 | Martha and I married during the Second World War , as did Steven 's parents , when wedding couples needed clothing coupons from all their relatives to make the wedding dress and wedding suits , which had to be of sensible material so that they could be worn again . |
| 15 | I take as a second period the ten years thereafter until the parents are about their early seventies . |
| 16 | I work on the second floor . |
| 17 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 18 | Cotton paper used to be made with cotton rags but is now made from cotton linters , which refers to the second harvest from the cotton plant . |
| 19 | At the back of this room there was a door which led into the second room . |
| 20 | Late in 1950 the French Minister of Agriculture , Pierre Pflimlin , announced at the Council of Europe — and proposed later in March 1951 to the non-member states of Austria , Portugal and Switzerland — something which amounted to a second Schuman Plan , in that it contained similar ultimate objectives : a common market directed by supranational institutions . |
| 21 | Therefore if calves grazed from early spring are given an anthelmintic treatment in early July and moved immediately to a second pasture such as silage or hay aftermath , the level of infection which develops on the second pasture will be low . |
| 22 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 23 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 24 | As was the case with the West Coast main line , the Great Western sub-sector was also badly affected by recession , but the decline at the start of the decade was matched by a spectacular recovery which started from the second half of the 1980s . |
| 25 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 26 | Eventually Newsome came up with a super 50–50 pass back which resulted in the second goal . |
| 27 | The issue of the transformation to political pluralism was regarded as the main obstacle to progress in the peace talks between the government and the Mozambique National Resistance ( Renamo or MNR ) , which resumed for a second round in Rome on Aug. 14 . |
| 28 | This contribution to the accumulating ‘ goodness ’ may be regarded as the first which is not due to the ruthless survival laws which belong to the second period of this book . |
| 29 | But how should we evaluate the cold war 's impact on the world outside Europe and North America — on the world which emerged from the second world war still largely in the condition of colonialism ? |
| 30 | In Creditor business , rating action has resulted in an improving trend which continued during the second quarter of the year . |