Example sentences of "[verb] it a second [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year .
2 If you dive after a surface interval of more than 10 minutes , the Solution will consider it a second dive , and dive time will start again from zero .
3 Could she survive it a second time ?
4 She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads .
5 Secure in their mountain fortresses , the Dwarfs did n't give it a second thought .
6 Most women I know would n't even give it a second thought .
7 Recycling is better than disposal so before you throw anything away think how you could give it a second life .
8 His hand hovered over the book as though to give it a second chance .
9 If you then get it a second time you will then possibly have an allergic reaction to the horse serum .
10 I could n't face it a second time .
11 While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted .
12 In any event , it is surely wrong , for the sake of a few weeks , to decide on the principle of the Bill by giving it a Second Reading while hon. Members still do not have the Stoner report .
13 It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time .
14 Dave said , ‘ The most frightening part of the jump was climbing out of the plane and having to crawl along the wing before jumping , but I look forward to doing it a second time just for fun ! ’
15 It was a joke really , because if she was one of the male officers then she would not have given it a second thought .
16 She had just pressed it a second time when she heard a faint voice above the High Street traffic .
17 When he did it a second time , I put the light out .
18 ‘ I did n't think you could get it a second time .
19 Death — she had so longed for it that she hardly gave it a second thought .
20 Meanwhile , Reuters has brought forward payment of its previously-announced final dividend of 15.9p to 5 April , renaming it a second interim .
21 Ace Barton , world champion and on present form looking likely to make it a second time .
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