Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 2 | It seems that the professional game , in contrast to our European and world rivals , has revered the second tenet but stifled the first . |
| 3 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 4 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 5 | Since that January night , Hillary has undergone the second stage of her transformation . |
| 6 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 7 | This year , footsteps have been spotted exiting from Cold Hole ( Fuar Tholl , Hard V ) , and I have n't heard who has made the second ascent , and it bugs me ! |
| 8 | The TOP improvement team at Hunterston considering ways to extend GOMIS from a maintenance planning system to one capable of works resource planning across the station has used the second stage of the ‘ Brown Paper ’ technique described in last months edition of Scottish Nuclear News . |
| 9 | The competitive nature with which most counties have come to contest the Second XI competition adds to the pressure . |
| 10 | SunSoft Inc also says that it has reached the second milestone in its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 11 | They coincide with news that Gosforth First School in Newcastle has become the second school in the country to ask parents to pay £30 each to cover a £9,000 shortfall in the budget . |
| 12 | Waltham Forest health authority , which includes Mr Norman Tebbit 's Chingford constituency , in Essex , has become the second health authority to call for an end to the dispute by either negotiation or arbitration . |
| 13 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 14 | More recently , he has emphasised the second view , stating ( 1982b ) " rather than 'decreolisation' , we have : variation within Creole ; variation within English , as well as switching between the two … |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll need to take the second right after those lights , dear . |
| 16 | Britain has chosen the second option . |
| 17 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 19 | He jumped out of bed , contemplated his new seaside pyjamas with renewed pleasure , and prepared to enjoy the second week of his precious holiday . |
| 20 | It 's a good job they 'd got the second book off to the publishers . |
| 21 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 22 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 23 | This argument , however , seemed to defy the second law of thermodynamics which suggests that energy tends to become dissipated and order to dissolve . |
| 24 | United started the second half with a little bit more spirit , a Les Phillips header was tipped over the bar by Stowell . |
| 25 | When she 'd finished the second glass , he was still there , and still trying to catch her eye . |
| 26 | Joe did n't speak again until we 'd finished the second stage . |
| 27 | Most new pupils in the First Year can usually expect to join the Second Orchestra or Wind Band , provided they are of a reasonable standard . |
| 28 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 29 | And if there were n't enough Mansoori boys of the right age for Mansoori girls then the answer was either spinsterhood or a long wait to become the second wife of an older man . |
| 30 | Firstly , the rice-salt solution failed to fulfil the second criterion , which demands that the materials needed for preparing the mixture should be affordable by all who need them : The actual components of the mixture were readily available , indeed this was one of the reasons which prompted BRAC to substitute rice for the less readily available gur . |