Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning , after dropping Iris at Les Châtaigniers for the second day of her course , Melissa returned to the auberge and telephoned Antoinette Gebrec . |
| 2 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 3 | Its use in Germany during the Second World War provided the most dramatic illustration of the power of the symbol . |
| 4 | Pacelli 's relationship with Germany during the Second World War , and his apparent failure to act sufficiently vigorously in defence of the Jews , remains the great enigma of his pontificate . |
| 5 | This one is pitched in Rosamund Pilcher territory , a many-layered family saga set in London , Kent and Germany during the Second World War . |
| 6 | and Bankim Thanki for the second defendant . |
| 7 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 8 | The Beazer Homes League visitors have displayed a knack this season of stealing last-gasp cup match goals , and it was another 89th minute affair which helped check Cornard for the second time in two months . |
| 9 | I have been involved in local politics for several years and I am running in South Ward for the second time . |
| 10 | The spectacular musical set in London 's East End during the second world war . |
| 11 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 12 | The film , about the effect of war on young men at a United States Air Force base in Cambridgeshire during the Second World War , demanded that Crawford learn to speak with an American accent — in twenty-four hours . |
| 13 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 14 | TOM joined the family business as the fourth generation and served in the RAF during the second world war . |
| 15 | The Czechoslovak government faced a demand from Sudeten Germans for material compensation for their expulsion from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War . |
| 16 | Theirs is a distinctive type of cut-price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin . |
| 17 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 18 | These are aids of a social character , those given to relieve the effects of natural disasters and those designed to compensate for economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany after the Second World War . |
| 19 | Mr Lozoraitis had raised eyebrows in Moscow by a suggestion that Lithuania might one day regain Kaliningrad , a region ceded to Russia by defeated Germany after the Second World War . |
| 20 | AS the ideological gulf between Moscow and Bucharest yawns ever wider , the Romanian leader , President Nicolae Ceausescu , has raised the potentially explosive issue of former Romanian territories annexed by the Kremlin during the second world war . |
| 21 | The Master of Ceremonies and a capacity crowd of 12,500 welcomed a wild hairy caveman to Wembley Arena on Tuesday for the second night of the World Wrestling Federation European Rampage Again Tour . |
| 22 | The trigonometrical ratios sine , cosine and tangent were used by Hipparchus during the second century BC to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy : 7900 and 238 000 miles respectively . |
| 23 | The Reykjavik summit , when President Reagan met Mr Gorbachev for the second time , led to a notable strain between Washington and London . |
| 24 | Benazir Bhutto has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time after a decisive victory in the country 's parliament over her greatest rival , the Muslim League leader , Nawa Shariff . |
| 25 | Among the contents of Matthew 's safe there were two manuscript volumes , the journal of a certain Martin Beale who lived and worked in Natal and Cape Province during the second half of the last century . ’ |
| 26 | A well-loved picture dominates the bar , held in almost religious awe : a photograph of the SS Politician , the vessel which ran aground off Eriskay during the Second World War , cargoed with 20,000 cases of whisky ; not all of which went to the bottom when the boat eventually sank . |
| 27 | Her brother who had been a soldier was killed in Flanders during the Second World War and was buried there . |
| 28 | For Celtic and Macari , a vital game tomorrow in advance of Tuesday 's flight to Lisbon for the second leg UEFA Cup tie . |
| 29 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 30 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |