Example sentences of "[verb] to his second " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it could no longer be denied that there was a recession , the Chancellor retreated to his second line of defence . |
| 2 | His heir , Muhammad Reza , was born to his second wife , queen Taj ol Molok , on 20 October 1919 . |
| 3 | She had worshipped Hendry as she watched him on TV marching to his second Embassy world title last April and made nightly notes in her diary detailing her adulation . |
| 4 | White Face was presumably trusting to his second compartment , ‘ the part that never hatched ’ , to see him along his course . |
| 5 | He finished runnerup in the javelin to add to his second place in the shot put . |
| 6 | After his death the Estate , including the hotel passed to his second cousin , Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 7 | By this stage the fielding captain has been compelled to resort to his second and third string bowlers , keeping his main strike men back to stem the batting slog over the last 10 overs . |
| 8 | His mother says he would never own to his second name , which was that of a friend of Herbert 's living in London . |
| 9 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |