Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his reply of 21 February 1935 , he added a footnote in his own hand which put the matter aptly ; but about my second article he had his doubts . |
| 2 | At some time during my second afternoon at the centre , a Bonny Baby competition was held , but I missed it all in a blur of Mickeys . |
| 3 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 4 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 5 | During my second evening at the hotel there was a knock at the door . |
| 6 | ‘ I worked it out during my second week here . |
| 7 | ‘ Your wife wo n't like you acting as my second skin . ’ |
| 8 | I thus started a relationship with that country that has been constantly rewarding for the rest of my life , and indeed I now regard it almost as my second homeland . |
| 9 | Only 11 years were acknowledged , and plans to throw the wedding reception at Althorp for my second marriage were cancelled . |
| 10 | This recurs in the expression " this place / Appointed for my second race " ( lines 3 – 4 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Paul Wilkinson put in a great header but I got the final touch for my second goal . ’ |
| 12 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 13 | This was invaluable for my second pregnancy and birth . |
| 14 | Ignominiously , I was hustled out after my second question clutching my scrap of question paper . |
| 15 | ‘ … after my second run , however , I noticed that my wingman was circling overhead . |
| 16 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 17 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 18 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 19 | Two boys crippled by snipers during the war in the Lebanon are preparing to go home again after their second spell of treatment in Britain . |
| 20 | Two doses of vaccine are given at an interval of four weeks and , in order to allow a high level of immunity to develop , vaccinated calves should be protected from challenge until two weeks after their second dose . |
| 21 | The prosecution offered no evidence after their second trial ended with a hung jury at Knightsbridge Crown Court in London yesterday . |
| 22 | After their second teaching practice , which is in a nursery school , the emphasis shifts to the development of literacy in the Infants school . |
| 23 | BRACKLEY , the Northants club represented by Ray Gaskins and England bowlers Gary Harrington and Ted Hanger , took the triples title at the Manchester Unity National Indoor Championships at Melton Mowbray yesterday after their second marathon match in as many days . |
| 24 | The Home Office is planning tougher powers against laundering by adding extra clauses to the Criminal Justice ( International Co-operation ) Bill after its second reading this month . |
| 25 | Petworth epitomised the process particularly after its second rebuilding by George , Third Earl of Egremont , in the 1780s . |
| 26 | Billy quickly broke box-office records at the Theatre Royal , playing to capacity audiences after its second week . |
| 27 | ‘ Alain will be home in the morning , ’ Marguerite observed as she came to bid Jenna goodnight after her second day in bed . |
| 28 | Sadly she is recently widowed after her second marriage . |
| 29 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 30 | This was mainly the result of the action taken by Roosevelt shortly after his second inauguration : his attempt to reform the Supreme Court . |