Example sentences of "[vb past] the second [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 2 | History will also record that Europe also shared the second series of Fourballs but only after the Americans came within a whisker of obliterating their lead altogether . |
| 3 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 4 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 5 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 6 | Though not a Leveller sympathizer , he sat as a leading London Independent on the committee that drafted the second Agreement of the People . |
| 7 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 8 | SOUTH AFRICAN captain Kepler Wessels became the second cricketer to be dismissed by a TV replay yesterday , adjudged run-out against India on the fourth day of the second Test in Johannesburg . |
| 9 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 10 | The consultant psychogeriatrician in the London Borough of Newham was one of those approached , and as he responded most quickly and positively , Newham became the second area in which the project was to be set up . |
| 11 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 12 | Mike Graham snapped when the radio commentator announced the second strike against the batter . |
| 13 | In August 1980 the DUC produced the second issue of their bulletin STOP . |
| 14 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 15 | Whilst in the turn Lt Ferris broke away from Lt Marrons ' and attacked the second element of Jigger Green . |
| 16 | The team won the first leg 2-1 and drew the second leg in Belfast on Wednesday night to qualify for the first round of the tournament . |
| 17 | Franco seemed to be riding on the crest of the wave as he entered the second decade of his rule — his " magistracy " as he called it in his own grandiloquent language . |
| 18 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 19 | They devoted the second half to a work written by a composer who was also a student at the time of its creation , Josef Suk . |
| 20 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 21 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 22 | Young ) moved the Second Reading in May 1989 . |
| 23 | He took her hand and they approached the second door on the left . |
| 24 | About half thought that their organisation used the second form of participation , that employees were kept informed . |
| 25 | Redknapp created the second goal in the 16th minute , his incisive pass enabling the overlapping Neal Ardley to cross , and after Mike Sheron 's shot was blocked , Phil Whelan drove the ball home . |
| 26 | Air operations in Hawaii were put under the direction of Lt Col Art Wildern ( USAF , ret ) who hired and trained the second crew of pilots who were to do the flying in Hawaii . |
| 27 | Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday added the second generation of its Citizen Watch Co-made 1.3″ hard drive : the Kittyhawk II Personal Storage Module features increased durability and better power management as well as 42.8Mb capacity , twice that of the original . |
| 28 | But he never received the second call to Covent Garden for which he longed . |
| 29 | At the battle of Lewes ( 14 May 1264 ) Fitzjohn commanded the second division of Montfort 's army with Gilbert de Clare , eighth Earl of Gloucester , and William de Munchenci [ qq.v . ] . |
| 30 | He booked the second floor of the Ivy restaurant near the theatre and there Lou and Pat , and his closest friends of the moment , would drink endless cups of coffee until the first editions of the paper came out . |