Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other side of the highway the second of the big sixteen wheelers was parked , engine running and one of Rocky 's trucker buddies behind the wheel . |
| 2 | A brother or father 's brother of the bride should meet the first group ; a sister or mother 's sister of the bride the second group ; a cross-cousin of the bride the third group . |
| 3 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 4 | Each year of the cycle the first tithe was paid to the Levites ( with the exception of the Sabbath ) and on the third and sixth year of the cycle the second tithe was a poor tithe . |
| 5 | Twice remove from the freezer before the ice is solid and beat vigorously , folding all but 2 tbsps of the praline mixture into the ice-cream the second time . |
| 6 | High above the disc the second albatross soared ; so high in fact that its tiny mad orange eyes could see the whole of the world and the great , glittering , girdling Circle Sea . |
| 7 | Karen Bage and Eileen Boynes have been named sales negotiators of the month for Shepherd Homes in the North-East the second time in a year the team at the Beckfields Walk development at Ingleby Barwick , near Thornaby , has won the award . |
| 8 | I 've got an appointment in the hospital the second week of March and she said go down and have a blood test about three weeks before at least three weeks before . |
| 9 | While the first point is of little real consequence except to the typographer the second means that if you only have 10 point and 12 point but want 14 point you are going to have a real problem ! |
| 10 | Customs have now announced a change to the way the second hand scheme for cars operates , so that second hand car dealers who acquire cars from these businesses may continue to sell them through the scheme . |
| 11 | Two years later , by the time the second edition was published , most of these had been rescued and were off the danger list . |
| 12 | By the time the second local meeting took place on Wednesday 28 February 1990 at Myshall , concern over the mining had hardened into opposition which was strongly expressed . |
| 13 | By the time the second oil shock hit Japan in 1979–80 the rate of inflation had been brought under tight control by a sharp reduction in the level of wage increases , energy-saving technology had been introduced , stricter pollution controls were enacted and LDP support had revived . |
| 14 | The manoeuvre worked , and by the time the second hedge loomed in front of her , Artemis had some semblance of control . |
| 15 | By the time the second draft was written , favourite characters had been left by the wayside . |