Example sentences of "[art] second [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The second created a storm of controversy . |
| 4 | The first tea-house was a low straw hut ; the second occupied a corner of an abandoned building by a well . |
| 5 | 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 . |