Example sentences of "[verb] been the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 2 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 3 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment ; x new members were recruited by Head Office in 1992 . |
| 4 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment . |
| 5 | Or the vendor may have been the second defendant , also called Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on 23 September 1988 and to which company all the assets of the U.K. Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. had , following an agreement of 26 October 1988 , been transferred . |
| 6 | This was the winner against Chesterfield scored by Simon Brain after 12 minutes and this should have been the second goal . |
| 7 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 8 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 9 | The number of deaths attributable to political violence since 1984 , according to the South African Institute of Race Relations ( SAIRR ) , had totalled 11,910. 1991 had been the second worst year since 1984 , but the figure of 2,672 for the year was 28 per cent down on 1990 . |
| 10 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |