Example sentences of "[vb past] the second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he posted the second letter now , before he took the Bakerloo line to Kilburn . |
| 2 | Soon he was cannoning off lime trees and , as they passed the second gates , crashed into the left-hand gatepost . |
| 3 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 4 | History will also record that Europe also shared the second series of Fourballs but only after the Americans came within a whisker of obliterating their lead altogether . |
| 5 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 6 | The following day Lord Francis Douglas , who was to die later that week on the first ascent of the Matterhorn , made the second ascent , accompanied by Peter Taugwalder , the guide , Joseph Vian . |
| 7 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 8 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 9 | Indeed it was this economic growth which made the Second Empire so important for 19th- and even 20th-century France . |
| 10 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 11 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 12 | ‘ So Black Will 's waiting 'is turn , is 'e ! ’ chortled the second voice . |
| 13 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 14 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 15 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 16 | Cyprus and Malta did so in July 1990 [ see p. 37625 ] , while Sweden in July 1991 became the second EFTA country ( after Austria ) to apply ; an essentially positive opinion on Austria 's application was issued , also in July , by the Commission [ see p. 38353 ] . |
| 17 | On Nov. 6 , 1989 , after 17 years of debate , Massachusetts became the second state to pass a civil rights law for homosexuals . |
| 18 | THE tour operators Euro Express yesterday became the second travel firm in less than a week to collapse . |
| 19 | Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he dismissed Mark Taylor at Perth |
| 20 | KAPIL DEV , India 's Pride , became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he trapped Australian opener Mark Taylor lbw in the first over after tea at 4.05 on the third day in the final Test of the recent series . |
| 21 | Mrs Cutforth became the second Mrs Tawell regardless of their feelings . |
| 22 | Looking unusually demure , Jennie Walker who became the second Mrs Tiller |
| 23 | SOUTH AFRICAN captain Kepler Wessels became the second cricketer to be dismissed by a TV replay yesterday , adjudged run-out against India on the fourth day of the second Test in Johannesburg . |
| 24 | Ian Butterworth yesterday became the second Norwich player , after Gunn , to be punished by the club for newspaper comments about the brawl . |
| 25 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 26 | The former title-holder , Jansher Khan , also from Pakistan , plays Bryan Beeson , who became the second Briton to reach the last eight by overcoming Jason Nicolle , 15-7 , 15-13 , 15-6 in a tussle of English giant-killers . |
| 27 | The consultant psychogeriatrician in the London Borough of Newham was one of those approached , and as he responded most quickly and positively , Newham became the second area in which the project was to be set up . |
| 28 | Joan Kirner became the second woman to lead an Australian state government when she was elected Premier of Victoria , on Aug. 9 , by the state 's ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) . |
| 29 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 30 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |