Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 2 | In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming . |
| 3 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 4 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 5 | They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt . |