Example sentences of "[art] second [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second had a cap which was sewn with emeralds ; the third bore a pair of the high-heeled boots which great ladies wore to walk about the city ; and behind them , their faces solemn with barely suppressed mirth , came three women , a high-collared cloak folded lengthwise between them . |
| 2 | Near the end of the second count a fight broke out at the Zuwaya goal because the teller , the secretary to the local Assembly and technically above suspicion , but also Maghrabi and therefore watched very carefully , claimed to have recorded 900 votes . |
| 3 | The second defines a procedure which clears from the current cursor position to the end of line on an 80 column screen . |
| 4 | Thus the first of these groups learned a discrimination between A and C but not between A and B ; the second learned a discrimination between A and B but C and A received the same treatments . |
| 5 | Consider , in this light , the contrasts in ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) , each presenting two sets of data ; the first set includes an adverbal adjective ; the second contains a predicate qualifying adjective , as indicated by the identity of the appropriate questions : ( 17 ) Ellen shook loose the keys what did Ellen do to the keys ? how did Ellen shake the keys ? the thief produced unharmed the goat what did the thief do to the goat ? how did the thief produce the goat ? ( 18 ) the raiders shot dead two vigilantes what did the raiders do to the vigilantes ? how did the raiders shoot the vigilantes *Andrew wants milky his coffee what does Andrew do to his coffee ? how does Andrew want his coffee ? |
| 6 | The second created a storm of controversy . |
| 7 | In the second belong a number of ‘ neo-populist ’ social historians whose primary concern has been to elucidate the distinctive structure and culture of the traditional peasant family farm . |
| 8 | The first field provides a file name , and the second provides a comment : |
| 9 | The first tea-house was a low straw hut ; the second occupied a corner of an abandoned building by a well . |
| 10 | The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) . |
| 11 | The first of these described two arduous journeys from Constantinople via Salonika ( taking in Mount Athos , which he climbed ) across the Scardus and Bertiscus ranges , then further north into Montenegro and across the Mirdita country of central Albania ; while the second described a journey from Samsun across the Anatolian plateau , through Cappadocia , past Lake Van to Erzerum , and so back to Trebizond , the latter stretch roughly across the route taken by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand . |
| 12 | The second entails a projection as to how the pupil will behave in the unit but this is often obliquely expressed and reworked in terms of the first . |
| 13 | The second covers a miscellany of submissions , some on a yearly or other periodic basis , others made only when the need arises . |