Example sentences of "the second [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telford watched nervously as the team of workmen drifted towards the second pump at the top of the rise . |
| 2 | He is playing in the Second Division at the moment , but my priority is to get him to come to the club . ’ |
| 3 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 4 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 5 | The two lavatories were on the second floor at the rear opposite the Document Examination Laboratory . |
| 6 | Concentrate on the second man at the Abbey : call him Person Y. Where are we ? ’ |
| 7 | Once you are starting the second year at the school you see faces that are familiar and through brothers and sisters who are in the years above you get to know them . |
| 8 | Goals in the first half by Ian Stewart , the former Northern Ireland international , and captain Tony English , with a 70th-minute penalty by player-manager Roy McDonough , gave the Essex club a comfortable cushion for the second leg at the Moss Rose Stadium next Friday . |
| 9 | On arrival in Johannesburg , the first thing I noticed was a young , fresh , smiling face , who turned out to be the Second Secretary at the Consulate . |
| 10 | The government accepted indicative bids for BTG and informed the consortia involved in the bidding which of them had got through to the second round at the end of January . |
| 11 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 12 | The second town at the time , York , only had a population of 11,000 . |
| 13 | Scott was a pupil at Heywood High School , the second pupil at the school to drown in the River Wye . |
| 14 | I had the second show at the Hanover in 1964 and then I was persuaded by Robert Fraser to make a move from the Hanover to his gallery . |
| 15 | He knew she was ‘ out ’ ; it explained the second place at the tea-table , and the mysterious bell . |
| 16 | Joshua married , for the second time at the same church Elizabeth Hartley , and William soon had a half-brother , Bernard Hartley Green , who died on 16th August 1820 . |
| 17 | Fresh Art , the only fair to show the work of British graduates and post-graduates , will be held for the second time at the Business Design Centre , Upper Street , Islington , London N1 from 17 July to 1 August . |
| 18 | When Sir John let go for the second time at the age of 86 in 1982 , he put Littlewoods in the hands of the first non-family chairman . |
| 19 | A YOUNGER set of judges would provide a better image to the public : so says Mr Harold Hewitt , who last weekend sat for the last time , retiring for the second time at the age of 75 . |
| 20 | Manager Micky Stewart said : ‘ His knock of 71 in the second game at The Oval AND this one here were absolutely brilliant . |
| 21 | The second reactor at the Ignalina nuclear power station has been closed down after a leak of radioactive steam . |