Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sails and rigging trailing over the side , and bows noticeably down , the first ship swung broadside on to the current of the river , and into its flank the second crashed , both drifting towards the pole-marked shallows of the sand-banks . |
| 2 | The plaintiffs ' claim in these proceedings is based on allegations of a complicated fraud said to have been perpetrated by the first defendant Mr. Tully in conspiracy with his wife the second defendant , Mrs. Tully and with all or some of the other first 16 defendants . |
| 3 | As Simone de Beauvoir argued in her book The Second Sex , man has constructed woman as ‘ the Other ’ , as the one who is not oneself . |
| 4 | Arlie Hochschild in her book The Second Shift interviewed 10 couples over 12 years , from 1976 to 1988 . |
| 5 | From its inception the Second Empire resembled a splendid military pageant , with its colourful regiments whose uniforms were ornamented with sabretaches , aiguillettes and gleaming leather . |
| 6 | But do n't go counting on my mercifulness a second time . |
| 7 | She went out and put her hand up to her brow a second time , searching the meadows more thoroughly this time . |
| 8 | Lola Hahn-Warburg could call on the services of a neurologist ‘ who is at our disposal every second Thursday for a whole afternoon ’ , a psychologist and two psychiatric workers . |