Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryant , now in the twilight of an incredible career , recovered after dropping the opening set against Australia 's Dennis Katunarich to take the second and third sets . |
| 2 | World number one Pete Sampras reached the second round with the loss of one set against potentially dangerous clay-courter Andrei Cherkasov of Russia . |
| 3 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Mick Stockwell headed an equaliser , Gavin Johnson claimed the second and Paul Goddard drilled home No 3 . |
| 6 | After this chronological march through the archives , Jane Brown devotes the second part of her weighty book to the delightfully rich seam of garden buildings and ornament designed over the last 400 years . |
| 7 | During the rest of the inter-war period , and indeed ever since , Labour politicians and commentators have attempted to explain why Ramsay MacDonald ditched the second Labour government and formed a National Government . |
| 8 | Mr Gilchrist said the second alternative would be to impose a levy — linked to profits — on lawyers who did only privately paid work , to subsidise those who did legal aid work . |
| 9 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |
| 10 | Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board 's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy — using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross . |
| 11 | Mrs Cutforth became the second Mrs Tawell regardless of their feelings . |
| 12 | Aileen Taylor has the second part of her investigation into warring neighbours . |
| 13 | Philip Jackson won the second round of the club 's float only league at Bond 's Bridge . |
| 14 | Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he dismissed Mark Taylor at Perth |
| 15 | And as the Marsh dismissal raged , Spartak compounded Liverpool 's agony when Andrei Piatnitski struck the second goal in the closing seconds . |
| 16 | MICA PARIS releases the second single from her new 4th and Broadway LP ‘ Contribution ’ . |
| 17 | MICA PARIS releases the second single from her new 4th and Broadway LP ‘ Contribution ’ . |
| 18 | Excluding Belgium , the United Kingdom has the second lowest life expectancy for females in the Community , but as Table 3 demonstrates , the differences are small . |
| 19 | Well , I do n't know if Marlborough tobacco was around in the time of Jesus Christ , but erm I think if Jesus Christ had the second coming today one of the first things he would condemn is this week that is the cause of death and destruction throughout the world , and if he would n't condemn that I would certainly be a bit dismayed . |
| 20 | In terms of per capita income Norway has the second highest standard of living in Europe . |
| 21 | Mike Miller leads the second ascent of Paul Ross 's Family Affair , belayed by Tony Peak . |
| 22 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 23 | A bourgeois , a man of the moderate liberal left , and unquestionably ready to confront the forces of conservatism and religion from the late 1850s ( though not before ) , he politely rejected the offer of Karl Marx to dedicate the second volume of Capital to him . |
| 24 | British movements in that direction were verified , and on 9 September Bülow ordered the Second Army to withdraw . |
| 25 | Charlton 's managerial duo of Alan Curbishley and Steve Gritt received the Second Division manager of the month award before the game and were satisfied with another promotion point . |
| 26 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 27 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 28 | They defended in depth and allowed under-strength Bristol to dominate the second half . |
| 29 | President George Bush gave the second State of the Union address of his presidency on Jan. 29 , the first such address to be given during wartime since the end of Vietnam conflict . |
| 30 | The early 1980s was a time of immense fertility for blacks in sport : as well as their presence in athletics , boxing and soccer , Desmond Douglas established himself as the top table tennis player in the UK , ; Eugene Codrington consolidated his captaincy of the British karate team ( composed mainly of other blacks ) and Roland Butcher became the second black player to play for an MCC touring side ( the first being Basil D'Oliviera of South Africa ) . |