Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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1 | MacPhail said : ‘ I twisted my knee early in the second half but I stayed on the field . |
2 | Devoid of ideas beyond booting hopeful balls forward in the first half , Alton got their act together in the second , coming from behind to take the points through sheer hard graft . |
3 | Ahl , 18 , from Exeter , outplayed her opponent particularly in the second set when she took the first five games . |
4 | His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 . |
5 | Then Yorkshire mounted a 49th-minute attack and , aided by a deflection , Robert Ward got his shot home at the second attempt . |
6 | It is interesting , however , that Ernest Man Del 's model of the stages of industrial capitalism ( 1975 : 108–46 ) , whose sequence of ‘ long waves ’ seems to correspond to the sequence of ‘ situations ’ described here , would locate our society now in the second half of the current ‘ wave ’ : and such periods are characterized , for him , by incipient crisis . |