Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months later H. L. Davison , the public assistance officer , reported to the Institution Committee that the new National Assistance Bill had received its second reading in Parliament . |
| 2 | Colin 's conservativism and steady timing had won him second place . |
| 3 | She had made her second husband 's life a hell , it seemed . |
| 4 | A joint enterprise with the Co-operative Wholesale Society , such was the prestige of the WTA 's reputation and the skill of the promotional machine that 5,000 bookings were taken in the first year , at prices two-thirds those of Billy Butlin , who had opened his second camp at Clacton the previous year . |
| 5 | Lord Citrine , the chairman-designate , began work in the offices of the Ministry of Fuel and Power early in 1947 , and , after the Bill had passed its second reading in the Lords in May 1947 , he was assisted by an Organising Committee . |
| 6 | By the time she had fetched her second cup of tea , Mrs. Mounce was on to their relations with their bank manager , and Tessa kicked off her shoes and tucked her legs up beneath her to be companionable . |
| 7 | By the age of twenty-four she had published her second novel , given birth to and buried a second daughter , buried her first son , given birth to a second , and received a letter describing the death by drowning and the cremation of her husband . |
| 8 | He had married his second wife Maud by no later than Michaelmas term 1245 . |