Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 2 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 3 | They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt . |
| 4 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 5 | The 29 year old world number 14 was convincingly beaten 6:2,6:4 by Sweden 's Jona Spenson ranked 30 places below him in the second round of the $1 million event . |
| 6 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 7 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 8 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 9 | There was blood everywhere , more of it by the second , and nothing they did seemed to stop it . |
| 10 | Brian obviously a very important win for you but there were some close shaves for you in the second half . |
| 11 | With the eternal and infernal Beeston breeze behind them in the second half Nottingham certainly put in a tremendous finish against Northampton . |
| 12 | Collegians had a slight breeze behind them in the second half , but were n't able to take control . |
| 13 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 14 | Britain experimentally contaminated a Scottish island with them during the second world war , and the place was considered dangerous until 1986 . |
| 15 | In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming . |
| 16 | The Allegro assai that follows this piece probably belongs with it as the second movement of a two movement sonata . |
| 17 | So Kenny Parker took over from me for the second half . |
| 18 | Admonished and instructed by turns , I occasionally had the tambourine snatched away from me by the Second Son , who would rap it sharply against the wheel . |
| 19 | in contrast to the middle classes , in which by the second half of the century contraceptives were available and effectively used , abortion was becoming a ‘ back-up ’ method of birth control ; in the case of working-class women , without safe contraceptives , it was a basic means of family planning . |
| 20 | for him about the second half saying , you know that he would n't have said this , would n't have said that . |
| 21 | Watch out for him in the second series of The Young Ones when it 's next repeated , making a brief guest appearance as an exploding peasant . |
| 22 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 23 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 24 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 25 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 26 | One such attempt came to nothing during the Second World War , when a military coup mounted under the pro-Nazi Rashid Ali al-Gailani was defeated . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , manager Billy Bingham was happy with his team 's victory on a rain-sodden pitch in Vilnius but admitted : ‘ We put pressure on ourselves in the second half . |
| 28 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 29 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 30 | Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War . |