Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] a second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quietwaters is slightly different from the other developments : there was already a course and clubhouse in place , but the plan was to develop a second course as well as the seemingly obligatory hotel and leisure complex and timeshare units . |
| 2 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
| 3 | Read the first time on 12 February 1844 , his creditors and debtors bill was read a second time on 30 April . |
| 4 | He said the secret was to hide a second box . |
| 5 | The old city was abandoned a second time , given over to romantics , theorists , transients and dogs . |