Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the practices were looking forward to the second year in which the ‘ steady state ’ of year 1 would give way to even greater freedom and opportunity . |
| 2 | Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast . |
| 3 | Soon Paige could hear it too — there were people climbing up towards them and they were getting closer by the second . |
| 4 | At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing . |
| 5 | But they were disappearing even before the Second World War . |
| 6 | When I left you last month I was looking forward to the second round of the Macpherson Paints UK Championships to be fished at Diglis Weir on the River Severn . |
| 7 | The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees . |