Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the second [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were the second crew on the scene and we did not leave the crash site all day . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We were the second example of 1960 's privatisation ( the Bluebell Railway in Sussex being the first ) but our 25-year hire purchase was the first and only one which British Rail permitted . |
| 3 | We had better tell him nothing. , It was the second cover-up of the day . |
| 4 | It was the second wave of arrests since an inquiry was launched in September . |
| 5 | It was the second winner of the annual Cricket Society book award . |
| 6 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 7 | It was the second day of athletics events of the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad . |
| 8 | It was the second weekend after the dinner party . |
| 9 | It was the second crash near Katmandu in two months . |
| 10 | It was the second marriage for the chef who runs Harveys restaurant on Wandsworth Common and The Canteen at Chelsea Harbour in partnership with actor Michael Caine . |
| 11 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 12 | It was the second attack on Tilly , a 22-month-old filly , in six weeks at her field in Woodside , Telford , Shropshire . |
| 13 | It was the second attack on his Elmfield Street house . |
| 14 | It was the second shock of the tournament in 24 hours , following holder Steve Davis 's elimination by 192-ranked Irishman Fergal O'Brien . |
| 15 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 16 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 17 | In 1941 , after a brief and inauspicious period of Vichy French rule , Lebanon was again occupied by Allied armies ; it was the second time in 24 years that British troops had crossed the southern frontier from Palestine . |
| 18 | It was the second time in their acquaintanceship that she had put her hand on his thigh . |
| 19 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 20 | It was the second time in eight months that Barre had changed the government , and no official reasons were given for the changes , but Barre called on the new Cabinet , sworn in on Sept. 5 , to solve the current civil war and economic crisis . |
| 21 | It was the second time in a fortnight the Glens had gone down to Portadown , but Saturday 's was a much brighter performance than the 3– |
| 22 | situated in Fleet Street it was the second house in London to sell coffee , and by c . |
| 23 | It was the second movement of the Mozart A Major Concerto . |
| 24 | For some , it was the second pilgrimage to Rome as a parish group , and many well-loved churches and places were again visited as well as new places of interest . |
| 25 | He was the second man in two days to ask me that . |
| 26 | He was the second Briton to be injured in Bosnia . |