Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 2 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
| 3 | Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half . |
| 4 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
| 5 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 6 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 7 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 8 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 9 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 11 | David Atkinson , an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo , notes that the banks ' operating profitability began to deteriorate again in the second half of the last fiscal year . |
| 12 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 13 | In any case , it 's tucked away in the second half of the book , after Offred 's prison-like existence has been thoroughly , horribly established . |
| 14 | Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well . |
| 15 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 16 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 17 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 18 | Aberdeen , who missed the diligent foraging of the injured Grant , strung more passes together in the second half . |
| 19 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 20 | Stainrod contributed the first goal and , after Pat McGinlay had headed Hibs level early in the second half , the player-manager then conjured up two inspired substitutions which brought Dundee victory . |
| 21 | Hereford equalised early in the second half through richard Jones . |
| 22 | Stevie Gallagher 's shot was brilliantly saved by Andy Blackwood as Dunmurry came back in the second half but the visitors went two ahead through a penalty by Andy McMenamin and the cross from the right was turned in by Gareth Healey for the third with eight minutes left . |
| 23 | The New Town , the central part of which was built mainly in the second half of the eighteenth century , is more spaciously laid out in classical streets and squares — ‘ not only gay and airy ’ , said Robert Louis Stevenson , ‘ but highly picturesque ’ . |
| 24 | They came out in the second half a much more committed side and proceeded to alter the whole complexion of the game with two goals from Paul Doney and Andrew Milne . |
| 25 | Chiddingfold pushed hard in the second period of extra time , and Peter Liles saved 'Mill with a super save off his elbow , flicking a goalbound shot just over the bar . |
| 26 | Tearaway : Tim Horan , who scored twice in the Second Test , proves too hot to hold — even for a tackler of Scott Hastings ' calibre |
| 27 | Connolly , incisive and dangerous throughout , scored twice in the second half , and only referee Les Mottram can explain how he failed to complete a hat-trick . |
| 28 | ‘ With the fear of God in us , we played passionately in the second half and ran out 3-2 winners , so Cloughie 's unpredictability in letting us stay up late on the Friday night was vindicated . ’ |
| 29 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 30 | M F I traditionally has a stronger second half cash flow and net borrowings are expected to fall further in the second half of the year . |