Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hooked badly off the second tee , was unplayable and took six . |
| 2 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 3 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
| 4 | Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half . |
| 5 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
| 6 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 7 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 8 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 9 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |
| 10 | So you know , these traditions die hard but I m but things had to change and they changed really after the Second World War . |
| 11 | Parishes were able to cope with their pauper problem until England 's population began to soar dramatically during the second half of the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | A family which was torn apart during the Second World War has had an emotional reunion . |
| 13 | The action was highly controversial , occurring mid-way through the second phase of Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 38693 ] . |
| 14 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 15 | The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack . |
| 16 | David Atkinson , an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo , notes that the banks ' operating profitability began to deteriorate again in the second half of the last fiscal year . |
| 17 | The K2s got away on the second attempt . |
| 18 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 19 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 20 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 21 | In any case , it 's tucked away in the second half of the book , after Offred 's prison-like existence has been thoroughly , horribly established . |
| 22 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 23 | Bedford25pts Waterloo4 BEDFORD , bailing furiously below the Second Division Plimsoll line , were in deep trouble at Goldstone Road on Saturday until , in the 35th minute , Paul Hackett , the Waterloo hooker , was sent off for stamping . |
| 24 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 25 | The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information . |
| 26 | We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year . |
| 27 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 28 | Aberdeen , who missed the diligent foraging of the injured Grant , strung more passes together in the second half . |
| 29 | In my dreams , I am still out there now , jinking into the chicane in second , piling on the power through third and into the pit straight , drifting left for the marker cone , turning in , clipping the apex and howling away to the second corner . |
| 30 | Stainrod contributed the first goal and , after Pat McGinlay had headed Hibs level early in the second half , the player-manager then conjured up two inspired substitutions which brought Dundee victory . |