Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action was highly controversial , occurring mid-way through the second phase of Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 38693 ] . |
| 2 | Bedford25pts Waterloo4 BEDFORD , bailing furiously below the Second Division Plimsoll line , were in deep trouble at Goldstone Road on Saturday until , in the 35th minute , Paul Hackett , the Waterloo hooker , was sent off for stamping . |
| 3 | In my dreams , I am still out there now , jinking into the chicane in second , piling on the power through third and into the pit straight , drifting left for the marker cone , turning in , clipping the apex and howling away to the second corner . |
| 4 | Now we are all looking forward to the second leg . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The man wetted his lips , looking hungrily at the second silver coin . |
| 9 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 10 | Mr Stefan Abrams , an investment analyst at Kidder Peabody , thinks earnings will start rising again in the second quarter . |
| 11 | That is , in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards , they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period . |
| 12 | Neil 's PR is now at the door , signalling frantically for the second time in two minutes . |
| 13 | Both teams were somewhat weakened for this visit of Lansdowne to Eaton Park but Ballymena just about deserved their narrow 3–0 win , the only score of the game , a penalty by Derek McAleese coming midway through the second half . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It shows that Essex , grouped as part of the Home counties , will see job prospects changing little for the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 16 | The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War . |
| 17 | Steve Winn gave Marske the lead early in the game , with Archie Stephens equalising midway through the second half . |
| 18 | But they were disappearing even before the Second World War . |