Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 2 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 3 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
| 4 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 5 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 6 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 7 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 8 | When Midshipman Jack Rogers , trying to identify a distant ship , hopes it may be a Frenchman and declares ‘ the French will never like the English till they have taught us to eat frogs , and have thrashed us on a second field of Waterloo , and I hope that time may never come ’ , his friend Alick Murray defends French courage in war and laughs at Jack 's belligerence . |
| 9 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |