Example sentences of "[verb] to the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |
| 2 | As regards size , to come to the second point , the Government amendments still seem to contemplate that sixteen should be the norm er but in practice , I would expect a great many exceptions to be made where for example there are number of constituent authorities er as in Greater Manchester er where there 's er a combination of urban areas and large rural areas , or where the authority tends to function through a lot of sub-committees each of which have to be manned as in Greater Man as in Merseyside . |
| 3 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 4 | Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary . |
| 5 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |
| 6 | Things do , of course , indeed they seem to succumb to The Second Law of Thermodynamics at a rate that must occasionally surprise even the most paranoid of entropy theorists . |
| 7 | Returning to the second courtyard , start by visiting the Chapel of the Holy Rood . |
| 8 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 9 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |
| 10 | Nothing I say hereafter is intended to relate to the second decision . |
| 11 | This corresponds to the second and third of the definitions of eurocurrency given earlier in the chapter : |
| 12 | The resolution , co-sponsored by Australia , New Zealand , and 14 other states , including several Pacific Island nations , was presented to the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly in November 1989 . |
| 13 | Hernán Ramírez Rurange , the Director of the Army Intelligence Directorate ( Dine ) , was transferred to the second Army division , based in Santiago . |
| 14 | But I think Freud would have also gone on to say that he had very good reason for resenting Wilson , because he blamed Wilson personally for the unjust peace , after er Versailles , but er , was indirectly , many people would argue , going to lead to the Second World War , and er , so Freud 's defence I think would be , this man really was responsible . |
| 15 | This average is related to the second moment of the distribution by the equation . |
| 16 | In particular , the second H pylori pattern seems only related to the second and third patterns of contact , which are characterised by evident epithelial damage . |
| 17 | According to the second view , inspiration was mantic possession : the divine afflatus took over the voice of prophet or prophetess , and employed the human agent as a musician plays a lyre which has no mind of its own . |
| 18 | The large lump was a swollen gland — probably the result of the blood irregularity which , according to the second test , had now returned to normal . |
| 19 | According to the second paragraph of article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 20 | The reason for this , according to the second of the two studies just cited , is that " large firms … had more rationalised hiring systems and were better able to identify when temporary workers could be used efficiently " . |
| 21 | According to the second interpretation even this may substantially overstate the effect of the section . |
| 22 | According to the first , and the largest group , all labourers are part of the capital ; according to the second group , it is , as Kiker points out , ‘ the skilled individual who is the capital ’ . |
| 23 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 24 | The study was performed according to the second declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethical Committee of Aarhus county . |
| 25 | Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron . |
| 26 | They came to the second door . |
| 27 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 28 | Byzantine vessels in contexts dated to the second half of the sixth century are known from the Isle of Wight ( Arnold 1982a ) . |
| 29 | The most recent acquisition is the baroque Graeco-Gandharan head of prince Siddhartha , dated to the second century AD , portrayed with curling locks and luxuriant moustache . |
| 30 | Dated to the second half of the second century , it seems to have been a tannery and leather workshop , and is not only one of the few reliable instances yet found for this industry , but is also one of the few industries attested at Alcester . |