Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal lost Danish international Jensen with a hip injury and England defender Adams in the second half but still have no real excuses . |
| 2 | A good English account of it was given by the Poet Chaucer in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 3 | The Beazer Homes League visitors have displayed a knack this season of stealing last-gasp cup match goals , and it was another 89th minute affair which helped check Cornard for the second time in two months . |
| 4 | I have been involved in local politics for several years and I am running in South Ward for the second time . |
| 5 | Remember those heady days not so long ago when 800 journalists packed into the ballroom at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas to see King and Tyson before the disgraced champion beat up Razor Ruddock for the second time ? |
| 6 | And though both were gone by the close — Stewart to just about the only ball to misbehave badly all match — the balance of power remained unaltered , a fact emphasised by Lamb and nightwatchman Russell on the second morning . |
| 7 | It was mostly East Grinstead in the second half with Leman being denied by Thompson twice and new England sensation Mahmood Bhatti shooting wide twice when well placed . |
| 8 | He was a national hero , he had been Supreme Commander in South East Asia during the Second World War , the last Viceroy and first Governor General of India , first Sea Lord , and finally Chief of the Defence Staff . |
| 9 | There was a longer period of comparative calm in the townships of the East Rand during the second half of December than at any time in the previous five months , although during the first half of the month deaths had averaged 20 per day . |
| 10 | FOUR-year-old Lucy Gill saved her epileptic dad Liam for the second time in two weeks by dialling 999 when he fell at their West Bromwich home . |
| 11 | At one time sharing the old Norn language , even there we had been forced to diverge , because while Shetland became absorbed into Scotland and obliged to take on the Scots/English language , the Faroese managed to retain and develop their own language , using that of their ‘ parent ’ country Denmark as the second tongue . |
| 12 | The final paragraphs of The Lame Duck , a vigorous tale of a convoy attacked by submarines in the North Atlantic during the Second World War ( a story partly based on the true fortunes of the San Demetrio ) , may serve to illustrate this point : |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm an ex-Navy man actually , although sea legs are not something you acquire and never lose , ’ said Mr Fulton , who survived the sinking of HMS Ibis off North Africa during the Second World War . |