Example sentences of "he [verb] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 2 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 3 | But he posted the second letter now , before he took the Bakerloo line to Kilburn . |
| 4 | ‘ Weapons , ’ the Doctor tutted as he disarmed the second rod . |
| 5 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 6 | He made the announcement in the Commons as he moved the second reading of the War Crimes Bill which makes prosecutions possible . |
| 7 | Franco seemed to be riding on the crest of the wave as he entered the second decade of his rule — his " magistracy " as he called it in his own grandiloquent language . |
| 8 | He booked the second floor of the Ivy restaurant near the theatre and there Lou and Pat , and his closest friends of the moment , would drink endless cups of coffee until the first editions of the paper came out . |
| 9 | He rejected the second half of his egg . |
| 10 | Then , however , came the surprise , for he opened the second box and that , too was empty . |
| 11 | He hid the second shotgun under a fallen branch at the foot of one of the pines shading the beach . |
| 12 | He ordered the second squad to make another pass along the Glen Road . |
| 13 | Then he ordered the second charge . |
| 14 | He finished the second pint with a definitive swallow and the backward movement of his head shifted one of the pictures . |
| 15 | He took the second bite . |
| 16 | He took the second torch out of his jacket pocket and tossed it to Jimmy . |
| 17 | He reached the second class in 1873 and became a first-class constable in 1876 , when twenty-four years old . |
| 18 | Mr Clay said he saw the second article on the plane flying home . |
| 19 | Gunzenhauser makes the very best of the repetitive rhythmic ideas of the outer movements and although he is perhaps a share more rhythmically plainspun than Kertész , in the first movement he eases the second subject in very nicely and the lolloping theme of the third movement Allegretto has much folksy charm . |
| 20 | He put the second letter in an envelope addressed to Newley at Miller 's End . |
| 21 | Mark Farrelly 's winning streak in the 125 series began at Desertmartin when he won the second race . |
| 22 | Erm he , he won the second world war in the Pacific and after the war he became emperor of Japan , well that was n't his title but that 's how he saw it . |
| 23 | He answered the second question , which he considered as turning on the effect of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 , by concluding that the council had a cause of action in libel against the defendants on the basis of the pleaded statement of claim . |
| 24 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 25 | Which was why he dipped the second piece of fried bread carefully in the egg and turned it about , concentrating on making it yellow all over . |
| 26 | He wrote the second instalment , The Witch in the Wood ( 1940 ) , in Ireland , where he spent a fishing holiday at the beginning of 1939 . |
| 27 | You know , I think the thing was that he was out of date , and by the time he wrote the second book he knew it . |
| 28 | Dworkin makes it clear that he considers the second principle to be the more fundamental one under a liberal conception of equality . |
| 29 | A little perplexed , he left the second mug of Pils on the table . |
| 30 | He held the second half of the innings together , passed 5,000 Test runs , and saw the total to 260 . |