Example sentences of "second [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Second Vatican Council she had even been removed from the Universal Canon , by ignorant prelates who — full of their scientific and rationalist approach to the institutions of sanctity — insisted she had never existed . |
| 2 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |
| 3 | After the Second World War they began to support African nationalism . |
| 4 | Nineteenth-century Boulton and Watt , Maudsley and Harvey beam engines are here , where until the end of the Second World War they supplied water to west London . |
| 5 | After the second World War they did n't have a economy in the second World War , now they have |
| 6 | At the end of the Second World War she spent six months touring concentration camps in Europe , with a programme of Yiddish songs and sketches , and met hundreds of survivors of Hitler 's persecution . |
| 7 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 8 | It has been completely eradicated from Greece since 1973 , where before the Second World War it caused an estimated one to two million cases annually . |
| 9 | After the second world war it had to adjust to the loss of an empire . |
| 10 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 11 | It was then a University magazine but after the Second World War it became , as Nonesuch News , the student newspaper . |
| 12 | Before the Second World War it boasted a church , two chapels , a school , three shops , a post office , two joiners , two tailors , a ladies dressmaker ( specialising in high quality garments ! ) , a cobbler , a slaughter-house and butcher , a fish and chip shop and two public houses . |
| 13 | After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools . |
| 14 | During the second world war he played an active role in the opposition to the German occupation , eventually joining the Resistance , and creating the magazine Confluence , which was rapidly banned , and became an early edition of French samizdat . |
| 15 | During the Second World War he made propaganda and training films for the US army . |
| 16 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 17 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 18 | Er well he was unemployed for a quite some time er and he got odd casual jobs er and then finally doing er as late as the second world war he got er he got employment on the railway . |
| 19 | During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade . |
| 20 | ‘ In the second coat pocket we found two very large pieces of wood , and inside them were great pieces of metal , very sharp . |
| 21 | He 's the second hand bloke she bought . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to call an automobile race car body manufacturer to make these double concave pieces which were very difficult to fashion from the second hand pattern we had . |
| 23 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map , and mark the distance ( see fig 39 ) . |
| 24 | You can plot the second position line you crossed as a true bearing on your chart or map and mark the distance . |
| 25 | But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems . |
| 26 | When we made our second Berlin recording we recorded the piece , which lasts 31 minutes , in no more than 40 minutes . |
| 27 | We often reached our overdraft limit because of a sticky cashflow — and after taking on a large mortgage to pay for a new factory we could n't raise any further borrowing for the second production line we needed much sooner than expected . |