Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 2 | Commentators noted that some of the unsuccessful presidential candidates in the first round were likely to lend support to Ratsiraka in the second round , due to take place in January . |
| 3 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 4 | For Celtic and Macari , a vital game tomorrow in advance of Tuesday 's flight to Lisbon for the second leg UEFA Cup tie . |
| 5 | In a gloom at being at school in the first place and being next to Heather in the second , I push my hands into my jeans pocket — we are n't supposed to wear jeans at school — and discover some chewing gum , antique but welcome . |
| 6 | Although essentially the poor man 's housecow in Ireland , the breed was exported to England in the second half of the nineteenth century to become the rich man 's pet , favoured for its dainty good looks . |
| 7 | They take a three nil lead to Swansea for the second leg of their first round tie . |
| 8 | Arsenal had no option but to take the attack to Oldham in the second half and Rhodes had to save from Thomas , Dixon and Quinn , but when a magnificent ball by Bunn sent Milligan streaking for goal he was hauled back by O'Leary , who was booked . |
| 9 | In September 1991 we were given letters saying that the school was organising a ski trip to Austria on the second of April 1992 . |
| 10 | He and his wife were Turkish-born Jews who came to Palestine before the Second World War . |
| 11 | Quintus Fabius Maximus , who punished the Tarentines for going over to Hannibal during the Second Punic War , found the colossal bronze Zeus , the work of the famous sculptor Lysippus , too difficult to transport to Rome . |
| 12 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 13 | Whelan was felled early on by Ball who should have walked then , and who did similar to McAllister in the second half . |
| 14 | Oxfordshire side Bicester are already on their way to Twickenham for the second time in two years . |
| 15 | And then down to Ivrigar on the second night . ’ |
| 16 | They were known as the Winant Volunteers , after John Winant , the US Ambassador to Britain during the Second World War . |
| 17 | Last year they went one better , overcoming Waterlooville before losing 1-0 at home to Sutton in the second round . |
| 18 | Last year they went one better , overcoming Waterlooville before losing 1-0 at home to Sutton in the second round . |
| 19 | A native of Austria , Rixi Markus emigrated to London before the Second World War , and in 1950 became naturalised , eligible to represent her adopted country . |
| 20 | The draw for next season 's competition pits the holders against Lancashire in round one and — if they survive that hurdle — they travel to Essex in the second round . |
| 21 | This instrument was known to Ptolemy in the second century AD , and — the underlying mathematical theory of stereographic projection can be traced back at least to Ptolemy 's great predecessor Hipparchus ( second century BC ) . |
| 22 | John 's letter to Hanns about the second Ballet Club visit , just before he himself left for Cape Town , ends with the remark ‘ You will soon be back to gossip and see my new nose ! ’ |
| 23 | This is apparent in a striking passage of the Histories ( 6. 5 3–4 ) written by Polybius , a Greek exiled to Rome in the second century BC . |