Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [art] second " in BNC.

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1 For in that case , the elaborate precautions to avoid eye contact could be read as a suspicion of his motives and thereby create a second order of virtual offence .
2 Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career .
3 The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning .
4 Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul .
5 I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour .
6 Palestinians on Nov. 15 disregarded curfews imposed by the Israeli authorities and openly celebrated the second anniversary of the Palestinian declaration of independence .
7 The cows have a long , flat lactation curve and readily adopt a second calf for suckling , and are considered easy to care for as housecows .
8 In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with .
9 The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting .
10 It is obviously wasteful nonsense for a district nurse needing a new dressing for a patient to have to return to the surgery , tell the doctor what is needed , possibly even draft the prescription for him , get the prescription dispensed by a pharmacist and then make a second visit to the patient to apply the dressing . ’
11 But obviously my plant to whack off hastily and then make the second copy had to be abandoned , because my dick would n't even begin to reach over the plastic strip between me and where the glass started when it was soft .
12 And then came the second Fleet Street sensation .
13 And then made the second just before half-time .
14 Because I think there has been a trend , has there not , in recent years where people tend to take a main holiday perhaps on the continent and then have a second holiday in this country .
15 The All Blacks lost the first game against the World XV and then won the second easily — a non-contest , rather , as Olivier Roumat was sent off and the World XV backs had a no-tackling policy .
16 I continued to assume that BW were happy about the proposal , and indeed had a second site meeting with Mr. , at which details of the sections of towpath , methods of work , and types of materials to be used were discussed — surely an indication that there were no significant problems .
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