Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we could 've got a second hand one , but I mean what I 'll pay for a second hand one we might as well get |
| 2 | Unfortunately , virtue alone is not enough ; possibly Carter would have been more successful and might have won a second term if he had been less intense , more flexible , less immersed in the detail of government and a little more willing to dissemble occasionally . |
| 3 | If Lyrical Ballads was as unpopular as legend would have it , why would Wordsworth have added a second volume in 1800 , and why would both volumes be reprinted in 1802 and again in 1805 ? |
| 4 | Sussex 's Wood gave a good account of herself and should have claimed the second set . |
| 5 | He would have shot the second man anyway . |
| 6 | Because we observe changes in Hox expression in neural crest and motor nerves as well as in the early neural epithelium , multiple groups of cells that will enter and populate the first branchial arch may have adopted a second branchial arch identity . |
| 7 | Wimbledon might have conceded a second goal on the stroke of half-time when Harford curled his shot narrowly over after a poor clearance by Segers . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 9 | If you were wise at the time , you will have had a second report bound up and filed , containing every fact used , every reference studied , all the results of tests , every reason you had in mind when you drew your conclusions — and you alone will have access to these private notes . |
| 10 | And Wolves should have had a second penalty after Regis had apparently set up Kelly but Sandford 's challenge went unnoticed by Mr Harrison , Stoke escaped and Wolves were denied the chance to regain the lead . |
| 11 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 12 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 13 | Bridgend did score a good try through Gareth Thomas from a tapped penalty , while at the other end Jones should really have kicked a second penalty after Jenkins had been penalised for treading heavily on Yendle . |
| 14 | There were times , subsequently , when I felt I should have hired a second vet to check the location and fitting of my own cranium . |
| 15 | I thought Clarke should have scored a second goal when he went through . ’ |
| 16 | And then Danny McCann could have scored a second for Fairmile in the dying moments , but he shot over from a good position . |
| 17 | Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 18 | Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 19 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 20 | Milton , owned by Mr and Mrs Tom Bradley , whose daughter , the late Caroline , produced him as a youngster , would have achieved a second record had he won in California . |
| 21 | Last year 's winner , Quinlan Terry , would not have beaten the second horse , the subsequent Group One race winner Ile De Chypre , had that rival not been drawn on the far side . |
| 22 | Lancashire might easily have lost a second wicket when Nick Speak backed up too far . |