Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | I continued to stay in the Second Son 's bedroom in the villa . |
| 2 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I agreed and we arranged to go to the second house . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The windmill was sited near the school , but it had disappeared by the second half of the 18th century . |
| 12 | By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had started on the second chair when Dadda shouted up the stairs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |