Example sentences of "take a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when the glider is launched it takes a second cable and parachute up with it . |
| 2 | The second machine takes a second look at the beans which pass the first scan using ultraviolet light . |
| 3 | The wife and mother who goes out of the home to earn a wage , to escape being totally dependent on a man , being isolated in the home , and the penny-pinching that trying to make one wage feed the family involves , takes a second job . |
| 4 | Wages for housework bypasses all those other struggles — well , I mean , with wages for housework , women would n't have to go out and take a second job . |
| 5 | Only when her detective leaned over and said ‘ This is the Princess Royal ’ did Mr Petheridge take a second look and relent . |
| 6 | Many farmers have adjusted to changing economic and social fortunes by taking a second job rather than leave their farms altogether . |
| 7 | Or , if you are young and fit enough , how about taking a second job at weekends , or some evenings ? |
| 8 | The government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI ) , in Taiwan is reportedly thinking about taking a second crack at a locally designed Sparc processor : it supposedly came up with 25MHz three-chip silicon in the spring , but was shooting for 50MHz . |
| 9 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |
| 10 | The sensual Margaret Tudor very quickly stirred up trouble by taking a second husband , the sixth Earl of Angus — a Red Douglas , who proved to be a greedy bully and unsuitable either as a husband or a stepfather . |
| 11 | He was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College , Cambridge , taking a second class in the classical tripos ( 1878 ) . |
| 12 | Disease free mucosa from cancer patients was not studied in the present investigation because of the technical difficulty of taking a second biopsy after the tumour had been removed . |
| 13 | So , you know , they 're taking a second mortgage , not a first mortgage , because we 've already mortgaged it . |
| 14 | He took a second picture and pocketed the camera . |
| 15 | They aim to make you look your best then capture you forever on film CAPTION — Mrs Penny Ebdon before ( inset ) and after CAPTION 2 — Body-builder Mr David Brown , a portrait which inspired a top cameraman CAPTION 3 — Ms Glynis Darlow before ( inset ) and after CAPTION — Mrs Addison and Mrs Simmons hold an example of their handiwork a dramatic photograph of Miss Claire Lawson , of Spennymoor , which took a second prize |
| 16 | It was the first of many significant wins — he took a second Scottish championship in 1980 — in a driving career which dove-tailed neatly with his growing business . |
| 17 | ‘ Our tour doctor has had one batch of blood tests on Jones but was unable to make an absolutely positive diagnosis and has taken a second set of tests . ’ |
| 18 | Our tour doctor has had one batch of blood tests on Jones but was unable to make an absolutely positive diagnosis and has taken a second set of tests . ’ |
| 19 | It recommends that France take a second look at following the policy that US President Jimmy Carter adopted of storing radioactive waste rather than reprocessing it . |
| 20 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 21 | ‘ And some of us men are learning to take a second job , eh ? ’ |
| 22 | It is time to take a second tea-break in our training as apprentice quantum mechanics . |
| 23 | Some types have one plain end to take a second connector |
| 24 | To rub it in he then scored from a free-kick ( which he was allowed to take a second time ! ) . |
| 25 | Do n't worry or get frustrated , you should use the days ahead to take a second look at your international or community interests . |