Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 2 | Encouraged by the finding of this tiny coin , I turned my attention to the second side of the pond and began the same operation along its full length . |
| 3 | As the most experienced grown-up , I had calculated I would hold my edge till the second day . |
| 4 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 5 | Whether the Halls , who remain the major shareholders with 42pc , will withdraw their support from the Second Division club remains to be seen . |
| 6 | Buddhists with this expectation of Maitri , Jews with their longing for the messianic age , Christians with their hope of the second coming of Christ , can talk together about the golden age ahead — their respective eschatologies , their glimpses of an eternal city , the abiding home of the human spirit . |
| 7 | Here her expressive rubato is freer , so that in the first movement the opening theme is more impulsive , and her freedom in the second subject vividly conveys the sort of magic you find in her live performances . |
| 8 | It is no part of the function of this chapter to dilate at length upon the rules ( so far as they exist ) or the functions of heraldry since its rise in the second quarter of the twelfth century , but a few general remarks will not be out of place . |
| 9 | Mr. Wakeham : In their response to the second special report from the House of Commons Select Committee on European Legislation , Session 1985–86 , the Government reaffirmed that they would endeavour to bring forward documents for debate at the earliest appropriate opportunity . |
| 10 | American and Britain are partly responsible for the way the Russians are now cos we finance most of their industry in the second World War |
| 11 | Most Dissenters decided to rally behind the bishops in their opposition to the second Declaration of Indulgence , proclaiming that they wanted " liberty by law " . |
| 12 | The ‘ Lancashire ’ coffin appears not to have made its début until the second quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Damian asked during a lull in their lovemaking on the second day . |
| 14 | It is difficult to generalise , but we all thought that the pupils related their work on the Second World War to the current conflict in the Gulf . |
| 15 | An sure enough , last year Heinz had to withdraw its sponsorship of the second Green Shopping Day at the last minute amid a storm of publicity over its tuna fishing methods , which were allegedly killing dolphins . |
| 16 | The Association is grateful to British Gas for its sponsorship of the second edition of this publication which it had , with HCIMA , launched the previous year . |
| 17 | England international Richard Knight has teamed up again with Berwick on their return to the Second Division after being linked with leading First Division teams . |
| 18 | In between driving lessons — she passed her test at the second attempt she was much in demand as a babysitter by her sisters ' married friends while Sarah used her to make up numbers at her frequent dinner parties . |
| 19 | William Golding 's second novel , The Inheritors ( 1955 ) , and his favourite , is about the historically remote world of Neanderthal man , conversing in cries and grunts and on the point of being supplanted by smooth and hairless superior beings ; his third , Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) drowns its hero on the second page and recounts his thoughts in the rest . |
| 20 | Matilda , sitting motionless at her desk in the second row , was watching things very closely . |
| 21 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 22 | The nationalist movements and the new nations which made their appearance after the Second World War thus displayed features which distinguish them in some ways from the earlier movements which led to the formation of nation states in Western Europe , because they arose in a very different international context — in a highly developed capitalist world economy , in the aftermath of a division of the world among powerful imperialist nations , and in the midst of political transformations resulting from the growth of the socialist movement . |
| 23 | Desperation to escape also helped her to find her way through the labyrinth of passageways , up to her room on the second floor . |
| 24 | But just three days before the England selectors name their team for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's , Fletcher was not too concerned about Gower 's injury-enforced absence . |
| 25 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 26 | GDP actually reached its trough in the second quarter of 1992 , since when it has grown by 0.2% each quarter . |
| 27 | This brought to an end a two-week crisis which had presented the first serious threat to communist rule in Albania since its establishment during the Second World War . |
| 28 | Oxford United hope to secure their place in the second round of the Coca Cola Cup tonight . |
| 29 | But after a topsy-turvy match at Midgley Park it was the Swifts who booked their place in the second round , running out winners . |
| 30 | Thus , by increasingly objectifying , depersonalising , and in turn , defeminising her art in the second half of the decade , O'Keeffe moved closer to what she wanted : to be recognised as an artist , rather than as a woman artist — a term that , when applied to her , has specific erotic implications she could not tolerate . |