Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | He later urged voters to support Lissouba in the second round and , according to sources close to the two parties , on Aug. 11 UPADS entered into a formal electoral alliance with the PCT . |
| 2 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 3 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 4 | But , within 60 seconds , the visitors opened the scoring when former International , Niall Sturrock , beat Larmour at the second attempt with a well placed lob after a poor clearance by Nicky Blease had produced the initial chance . |
| 5 | Bari punished Pompey in the second half when Caglianelli and Alessio struck twice in 40 seconds , with Capocchiano adding a late third . |
| 6 | Wigan will meet Oldham in the semi-finals of the Greenalls Lancashire Cup if they beat Swinton in the second round next Tuesday . |
| 7 | Owen was , they declared : Did they , one wonders , ponder on the words ‘ illustrious disciple ’ as they dismissed Marx to the second rank of the misled and misleading who had got their economics so grossly wrong ? |
| 8 | I drew Lewis in the second round and came in second behind him . |
| 9 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 10 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 11 | The alarm clock woke Claudia for the second time and she sniffed appreciatively at the aroma penetrating her room . |
| 12 | According to Noel Stock 's Life , Pound first met Binyon in the second week of February 1909 , and early in March he found ‘ intensely interesting ’ a lecture by Binyon on European and Oriental art , for which the lecturer had sent him a ticket . |
| 13 | Ray Floyd , having dumped his ball in it to help Faldo to the second of his titles , would not deem it so . |
| 14 | Britain 's Ministry of Defence was instrumental in blocking GEC 's first attempt to merge with Plessey — and in extracting concessions in return for allowing GEC , in partnership with Siemens of West Germany , to acquire Plessey at the second bite . |
| 15 | Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick . |
| 16 | As Eisenman demonstrates , the legitimacy of the high priesthood — of Zadok or of the Zadok — was resuscitated by the Maccabeans , the last dynasty of Judiac kings , who ruled Israel from the second century B.C. until Herodian times and the Roman occupation . |
| 17 | England , who could meet Brazil in the second phase , may find the exercise more worthwhile than an hysterical afternoon at Lansdowne Road . |
| 18 | We ( Norway ) are through after completely demolishing Poland in the second half . |
| 19 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 20 | He claimed that another political party which would have Scotland in the Second Division of Europe was the SNP . |
| 21 | Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day . |
| 22 | Stroking Oxford for the second year running is a Glasgow Academy FP , Iain Gardiner . |
| 23 | Opponents claimed that HDZ policies were reminiscent of the fascist ustasha government which had ruled Croatia during the Second World War , and that it was receiving funds from ustasha emigré organizations . |
| 24 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 25 | Haden caught Lampitt bowled Tolley in the second over of the day … |
| 26 | He was off target with four penalty attempts and it was his mistake that presented Malone with the second of their two tries . |
| 27 | Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century . |
| 28 | Arguing that Richard 's attack on Toulouse was a breach of the truce of 1187 — which Richard denied — Philip invaded Berry for the second time in twelve months , though he first took care to ascertain that Henry II disclaimed any responsibility for his son 's actions and was therefore unlikely to move swiftly to his assistance . |
| 29 | The feelings of joy and despair in these two passages are almost equally balanced , and the Jewish cry of delight on seeing the shore-line of Palestine in the first and the image of Arab guns and hopelessness on leaving Palestine in the second are even more relevant now than they were then . |
| 30 | Defeat would have officially sent Cowdenbeath to the Second Division but that inevitable fate has only been delayed . |