Example sentences of "[prep] the second [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second Test running we were treated to the sight of a batsman in plaster coming out to help a colleague reach his hundred , and both were successful . |
| 2 | We often reached our overdraft limit because of a sticky cashflow — and after taking on a large mortgage to pay for a new factory we could n't raise any further borrowing for the second production line we needed much sooner than expected . |
| 3 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 4 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 5 | During the second world war he played an active role in the opposition to the German occupation , eventually joining the Resistance , and creating the magazine Confluence , which was rapidly banned , and became an early edition of French samizdat . |
| 6 | During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade . |
| 7 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 8 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 9 | During the Second World War he made propaganda and training films for the US army . |
| 10 | The brewery used horse-drawn drays for beer deliveries in and around the East End , and during the Second World War it was hit hard when a German land mine damaged the brewery stables , killing and injuring many of the horses . |
| 11 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 12 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 13 | After the second World War they did n't have a economy in the second World War , now they have |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His loyal and seemingly very level-headed wife Nesta says of the second sex scandal he has been involved in during their marriage : |
| 16 | Nineteenth-century Boulton and Watt , Maudsley and Harvey beam engines are here , where until the end of the Second World War they supplied water to west London . |
| 17 | At the end of the Second World War she spent six months touring concentration camps in Europe , with a programme of Yiddish songs and sketches , and met hundreds of survivors of Hitler 's persecution . |
| 18 | At the end of the second world war he was one of a small band which went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin an agreed programme for ‘ liberated ’ Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | At the end of the second world war he was working as a docker in Bangkok 's harbour . |
| 20 | On the outbreak of the Second World War he was commissioned into the RAF 's equipment branch . |
| 21 | ‘ I had to call an automobile race car body manufacturer to make these double concave pieces which were very difficult to fashion from the second hand pattern we had . |
| 22 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |
| 23 | But in the second order system they take on a different set of structural features . |
| 24 | ‘ In the second coat pocket we found two very large pieces of wood , and inside them were great pieces of metal , very sharp . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ In the Second World War they would have been branded as lacking in moral fibre and been shunned by their service colleagues . |
| 26 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 27 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 28 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 29 | In the Second World War he seems to have thought that 5 per cent would be a reasonable target for postwar policy . |
| 30 | From 1935 to the Second World War it was their leaders who assumed the office of Prime Minister . |