Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chester-le-Street 's Lindsay Hardy , 15 , also won the girls race for the second year in succession , finishing 12th overall , and was surprised to beat Middlesbrough and Cleveland 's Kerry Matthew by over a minute and a half . |
| 2 | With consumption forecast to rise by 2% in 1989 — and with demand for OPEC oil expected to be at least 1m b/d less than the cartels supply during the second quarter — the world could again be awash in oil in a matter of months . |
| 3 | The same writer , using the same mix of ink , also headed several of the vocal numbers with the page numbers on which they appear in the second volume of Orpheus Britannicus , published in 1702 . |
| 4 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |
| 5 | But more than 2000 were made and they appear on the second hand market from time to time . |
| 6 | knock on the second door you come to . |
| 7 | Now , obviously , you know , yo getting the menopause out into the open so that everyone can talk about it , exchange information that that it 's not seen as a as a taboo or something to be particularly fearful of by men or women is n't going to be much good if it just makes everybody worry for er , for for the first half of o o o of their lives and , and then gibber through the second half ! |
| 8 | Conduct within the second category , for example , a donation to charity , will sometimes be sufficiently disconnected from ordinary business practice to make an attack on motive potentially more manageable . |
| 9 | He took the opening three frames in 52 minutes , including a 131 break in the second frame . |
| 10 | Hendry whitewashed world No62 Jason Ferguson , of Mansfield , for the second year running , making an excellent 131 break in the second frame . |
| 11 | THE CYGNET RING , earnest pop folk , embark on the second part of their Hopeful Monsters tour , which calls in at |
| 12 | Welcome to the second edition of NETWORK . |
| 13 | Use of a highly similar construct for the second axis means that the resulting map represents only one rather than two dimensions of judgment . |
| 14 | At the end of the first year of this course students may , subject to satisfactory performance , transfer to the second year of the BSc Hons/Ord Applied Computing at Magee College ( see page 160 ) . |
| 15 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 16 | Look at the second sentence , no , the third sentence . |
| 17 | erm And if you look at the second line , and begin three words in , it says ‘ the mistress , ’ the mistress is abbreviated , ‘ answers her man can not work , nor can she spare him till she be paid for what her husband did for the King 's soldiers ’ . |
| 18 | Eloise Brückner handed him the Munich Zeitung , open at the second page . |
| 19 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
| 20 | In the D minor Trio , music of a driving , almost Franckian pace , Cortot and his colleagues plunge through the second movement like men possessed . |
| 21 | DEC Mips-Ultrix , HP HP-UX , IBM AIX and Silicon Graphics Irix versions are due in January , with Solaris 2. x and DEC AXP-OSF/1 implementations set for the second quarter . |
| 22 | ‘ If we get into the Second Division our objectives would change . |
| 23 | The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber , in which we remain as long as we do not think … we no sooner get into the second Chamber , which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought , than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere , we see nothing but pleasant wonders , and think of delaying there for ever in delight . |
| 24 | But Rovers are still fifth in the Premier League , eight points behind Norwich , and have reached the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals — ideally placed for an honours drive in the second half of the season . |
| 25 | Get to the second year and you get £30 . |
| 26 | Lopsided and vulnerable , he tried to climb the barrage and get to the second balloon . |
| 27 | All change in the second half . |
| 28 | Roll for the second rank at strength 3 so you require 4+ to wound . |
| 29 | Counsel for the second defendant … relied on Hua Chiao Commercial Bank Ltd v Chiaphua Industries Ltd … |
| 30 | Gary 's neat and composed approach was enjoyed by the discerning fans but some Palace supporters found it difficult to accept this refined talent in the hustle and bustle of the Second Division of the mid-1980s . |