Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sale' s 16–6 win over Bedford hoists them to the second promotion slot . |
| 2 | Three more hours of paddling and bailing , bailing and paddling , brought them to the second expected rendezvous , but in the great troughs and high seas the submarine lookouts could miss the torch signal or RG beam from a 16-foot ( 5m ) canoe . |
| 3 | This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality . |
| 4 | But my argument will be double-edged ; and this brings me to the second reason for discounting ‘ higher learning ’ as a chapter title . |
| 5 | That brings me to the second most surprising feature of the fossil record . |
| 6 | That brings me to the second issue that I wish to discuss — the question of anonymity , which the Secretary of State mentioned several times in his opening speech . |
| 7 | This brings me to the second part of this paper in which I wish to turn to some of the ‘ challenges ’ a UK government archivist faces in attempting to implement an archival records management programme in government . |
| 8 | This brings us to the second proposition , which was evidently begotten of inability to answer that difficult , because inherently unanswerable , question . |
| 9 | This brings us to the second stimulus to the citizenship idea . |
| 10 | This brings us to the second of my three questions . |
| 11 | This brings us to the second general point : that women were not working in what were known as " skilled " occupations . |
| 12 | Nor was the scene confined to the city : half the picture was outside the wall , a stretch of which was shown near the middle ; and this brings us to the second great change , the opening up of space . |
| 13 | However , this line of argument still leaves unanswered the question why strikes are presented as they are , which brings us to the second of the points Hyman raised . |