Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain experimentally contaminated a Scottish island with them during the second world war , and the place was considered dangerous until 1986 . |
| 2 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 3 | So Kenny Parker took over from me for the second half . |
| 4 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 5 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 6 | Brian obviously a very important win for you but there were some close shaves for you in the second half . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll meet you on the second floor . |
| 8 | Erm you you bring me onto the second dimension of Leeds ' objection which is to do with the distribution of those jobs . |
| 9 | With the ground packed to capacity and the home team needing a valuable point to avoid relegation , Dundee played to win , eventually dismantling Saints and sending them into the Second Division . |
| 10 | JONATHAN Davies scored 20 points as Widnes went on a scoring spree that took them into the second round of the Lancashire Cup . |
| 11 | Moving to a different part of the country , for example , or even a chance meeting , may be the trigger to reactivate a relationship with someone in this outermost circle , thus drawing them into the second category . |
| 12 | I 've asked them as well and this might take them into the second week er to start with their pupils process on a Wednesday morning whereby in each classroom there would be a me master year plan even if it means they have to buy four and divide it up but I su I suggest that I would do something , you know , produce one and on that they will write pertinent to the the form to the form er and continue to add on that over , you know as and when it 's relevant er , dates for completion of course work , it might be module testing etcetera and I 'm going to ask at briefing that any anything that a teacher has put down for children , it might be just you know Mi Mr x's group is mentioned at briefing so they can write down what 's pertinent to them and therefore |
| 13 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 14 | Only a brilliant last end by their skip , Jamie Mills , saved them in the second round . |
| 15 | With the eternal and infernal Beeston breeze behind them in the second half Nottingham certainly put in a tremendous finish against Northampton . |
| 16 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 17 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 18 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 19 | Collegians had a slight breeze behind them in the second half , but were n't able to take control . |
| 20 | Whoever takes control of Oxford has got a job on to keep them in the second division … they 're six points adrift at the bottom … but on Saturday United faired best of the three Central South sides … they drew while Swindon and Hereford both lost |
| 21 | Who will join them in the Second Division is still a long way from being decided but GS Stirling enhanced their prospects of survival by beating Inverleith 2-0 . |
| 22 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 23 | This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality . |
| 24 | But my argument will be double-edged ; and this brings me to the second reason for discounting ‘ higher learning ’ as a chapter title . |
| 25 | That brings me to the second most surprising feature of the fossil record . |
| 26 | That brings me to the second issue that I wish to discuss — the question of anonymity , which the Secretary of State mentioned several times in his opening speech . |
| 27 | This brings me to the second part of this paper in which I wish to turn to some of the ‘ challenges ’ a UK government archivist faces in attempting to implement an archival records management programme in government . |
| 28 | Sale' s 16–6 win over Bedford hoists them to the second promotion slot . |
| 29 | Three more hours of paddling and bailing , bailing and paddling , brought them to the second expected rendezvous , but in the great troughs and high seas the submarine lookouts could miss the torch signal or RG beam from a 16-foot ( 5m ) canoe . |
| 30 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |