Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you .
2 A magic fairy that would whisk her away from all this , she thought , who could turn the clock back and give her a second chance — a more dignified entrance perhaps , a way of showing this arrogant rat just what she thought of him .
3 when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all
4 If you then get it a second time you will then possibly have an allergic reaction to the horse serum .
5 This is often confused with a lot of idealistic nonsense about the inevitability of progress , often coupled with ignorant nonsense about evolution " violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics " ( those that belong to the half of the educated population that , according to the novelist C. P. Snow , know what the Second Law is , will realize that it is no more violated by evolution than it is violated by the growth of a baby ) .
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