Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he went to his wall safe , opened it with the second key on the ring attached by a chain to his trouser belt , and took out his papers . |
| 2 | Thus midday discovered me with a second scotch in my hand , a Pakki nightie round my waist , and a half-naked sex-stewardess straddling my thighs . |
| 3 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 4 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 5 | He was promoted warrant officer in the RNAS and then , in 1918 , the Royal Flying Corps commissioned him as a second lieutenant . |
| 6 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 7 | Leo asked her for the second time . |
| 8 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 9 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 10 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 11 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 12 | Only a brilliant last end by their skip , Jamie Mills , saved them in the second round . |
| 13 | For a time he offered his services to Louis VII of France and accompanied him on the second crusade as papal legate in charge of the Anglo-Norman contingent . |
| 14 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
| 15 | United won it in the second half . |
| 16 | Villa won it in the second half . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 18 | And left it on the second hole . |
| 19 | Oxford left it until the second half for their equaliser . |
| 20 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 21 | In 1925 the Reid brothers , William 's sons , sold the hotel to a British company , and in 1937 it was sold to the Blandy family who closed it during the Second World War and then modernized it before it re-Opened . |