Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 2 | Lio ! rt came in for a second run , but slower this time to allow for the big man 's unexpected agility . |
| 3 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 4 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 5 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 6 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 7 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
| 8 | ‘ Dutch elm disease is a terrible thing , ’ said Mr Molesworth , corning round for a second time . |
| 9 | The Rothmans Honda team member broke his right leg in five places when he went down for a second time during the opening championship round on a wet Suzuka circuit . |
| 10 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 11 | Apollon did n't help their cause when they had Marios Charalambous sent off for a second bookable offence a minute before the break . |
| 12 | Go back for a second glance — is that really me ? |
| 13 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 14 | In due course ( usually about the end of January ) such Bills will come up for a second reading , i.e. they will appear again on the order paper for consideration during private business , the first item on the Houses ' agenda after prayers , usually 2.35 to 2.40 or 2.45 p.m . |
| 15 | West Indian pace bowler Ken McLeod has signed up for a second stint at Synthonia after being absent from the league for three years . |
| 16 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 17 | This is your moment of truth ; more like moment of terror as West Hartlepool ran through for a second try . |
| 18 | Then Gannon struck in the 81st minute and added the third with a penalty after Exeter 's Kevin Miller was sent off for a second bookable offence in the 89th minute . |
| 19 | Alan McDonald was sent off for a second bookable offence as Queens Park Rangers lost 2–1 to Tottenham . |
| 20 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 21 | Middlesbrough fans feared the worst when central defender Nicky Mohan was sent off for a second bookable offence . |
| 22 | Straightening up for a second time , Anna thought Isobel looked more like a librarian than a deacon . |
| 23 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 24 | SCUNTHORPE , down to 10 men for more than an hour , equalised , forced extra time and then held out for a second replay . |