Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 2 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 3 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 4 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 5 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 6 | By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression . |
| 7 | Spooked was running in the second race . |
| 8 | ‘ Good , good , very good ! ’ exclaimed Mr Broadhurst — he was flicking through the second book . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |
| 10 | At this stage two men , unknown to any of us , were introduced by the industrious Anne , whose excited curiosity was increasing by the second . |
| 11 | Anglo-Norman literature composed in what became an increasingly distinctive Anglo-Norman dialect of French was flourishing by the second half of the twelfth century . |