Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Are you gon na take Mary after you got in the second year ? |
| 19 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 20 | She asked for a second helping of spinach . |
| 21 | She had repaid £35 in seven monthly instalments of £5 , when she asked for a second loan . |
| 22 | It makes you feel like a second class citizen to be disabled . |
| 23 | She withdrew from the second round , allowing the unopposed election of Galy-Dejean ( the mayor of the 15th arrondissement , of which the ward formed a part ) . |
| 24 | erm And if you look at the second line , and begin three words in , it says ‘ the mistress , ’ the mistress is abbreviated , ‘ answers her man can not work , nor can she spare him till she be paid for what her husband did for the King 's soldiers ’ . |
| 25 | Now again , if it 'd been a full interview you might have death and service benefits and things of that nature which might and then when er I tapped it was obvious that you were gon na go for ANNA and you squashed from the second appointment right to the very end in the space of the two minutes . |
| 26 | She heard about the second attack only on her return . |
| 27 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 28 | Just like a shark , she thought for the second time that night , and the image did n't entirely displease her . |
| 29 | She looked at the second photo : the person in this one seemed to be dead too . |
| 30 | She went towards the second door , and Michael hurried ahead to open it for her . |