Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.

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1 You did n't turn them on until the second part .
2 Another chapter today would see me nicely into the second half of my story , and this evening I would talk to Crispin and get things sorted out with him .
3 The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing .
4 From the sound of it he 'd blow you away without a second thought .
5 Here the wide fairway beckons you seductively towards a second shot which will test your nerve .
6 So we 've planted a seed and we either get introductions there and then or we 've paved the way to the pick them up at the second appointment .
7 The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen .
8 His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before .
9 Peter Roberts of Kuperard , who launched the charity scheme last year , says this is enough to purchase 350 mats ( against the 90 he was able to distribute last year ) , and he is planning to hand them out in the second week of January .
10 But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings .
11 When industries were first nationalized , many of them immediately after the Second World War , the government had two concerns .
12 There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice .
13 He would find it easy to allow that attraction to grow and take what he wanted from her , then cast her aside without a second thought .
14 shrugging him close as a second skin
15 The skipper was preparing to take her out to a second rendezvous arranged for that night when the lookouts saw the grey canoe with a lone paddler .
16 he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket .
17 ‘ Even when we had a right go at them late in the second half , they were still strong .
18 He said it does n't matter who does it on down the second time .
19 Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side .
20 Even though it was unsupported by evidence , the conclusion would have been allowable were it not for the second piece of information contained in the warning message .
21 It 's 45 years since Cheltenham Town made it through to the second round of the cup .
22 Bangor Reserves , though , made it through to the second stage with a 2– win over Chimney Corner at Allen Park .
23 Dundela made it through to the second round with a 4– win over Armoy at the weekend , but they needed extra-time to do it .
24 Less than a dozen of the official green candidates are now expected even to make it through to the second round of voting next Sunday .
25 Only two of their candidates have even made it through to the second round .
26 The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army .
27 The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring .
28 They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different .
29 One expects the interpreter to influence the content , context and spirit of a message as little as possible in keeping with relaying it meaningfully in the second language .
30 Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy .
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