Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1901 he won an exhibition to Trinity College , Cambridge , where he received a second class ( division I ) in part i of the moral sciences tripos ( 1904 ) and a first class in part ii ( 1905 ) . |
| 2 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |
| 3 | Before the cholera outbreak in Two Years Ago ( 1857 ) , where he makes a second appearance , he alone among the landowners takes the doctor 's advice and sees that the pig keeps its distance from the cottage , and that the cottages themselves are thoroughly scoured . |
| 4 | He was educated at Winchester and at University and Exeter Colleges , Oxford , where he obtained a second class in literae humaniores in 1850 . |
| 5 | He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College , Oxford , where he obtained a second class in modern history in 1911 . |
| 6 | He has no chance of facing the tourists after suffering his fourth shoulder dislocation in Llanelli 's narrow home win over Neath and has been warned by doctors that unless he has a second operation he may never play again . |
| 7 | A former British and European light-welterweight champion , Barrett has now asked the British Boxing Board of Control to name him as challenger to Gary Jacobs for the British welterweight championship and Ludovic Proto for the European title before he considers a second world title . |
| 8 | His first round 79 left him seven strokes off the pace set by MacPherson and two other southern players , and when he added a second round 75 , he was nine strokes behind his Cheshire team mate Dave Watson of Helsby , who started 73–72 . |
| 9 | At first Peter 's parents thought he was still suffering from a recent bout of whooping cough , but when he started a second bottle of C-vit they noticed the drink had fermented , turning some of the juice into alcohol . |
| 10 | Mark Farrelly 's winning streak in the 125 series began at Desertmartin when he won the second race . |
| 11 | At a certain time he would drive past that house , as he did every second day , and the position of his driver 's window , fully up , half-lowered or fully down , would convey to the watcher the thing he needed to know . |
| 12 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 13 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 14 | Franco seemed to be riding on the crest of the wave as he entered the second decade of his rule — his " magistracy " as he called it in his own grandiloquent language . |
| 15 | ‘ Weapons , ’ the Doctor tutted as he disarmed the second rod . |
| 16 | Then , however , came the surprise , for he opened the second box and that , too was empty . |