Example sentences of "of [pron] second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was taking exams at the end of my second year studying architecture at Liverpool University . ’ |
| 2 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 3 | It 's part of my second year , so yeah I know . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd like it to be in memory of my second cousin Russell too , because he died from cystic fibrosis as well . ’ |
| 5 | The autumn of my second university year then . |
| 6 | It was my first machine , bought in 1952 after the birth of my second child . |
| 7 | The thought worried me until about the sixth month of my second pregnancy . |
| 8 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 9 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 10 | Erm erm two tapes on the end of my second tape , I 'm hoping to get on to a third but it depends how erm far this conversation goes . |
| 11 | ‘ Colin Harvey bought Mike Newell for the start of my second season and I ended up in the reserves , with all the publicity and pressure that brought . |
| 12 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 13 | Students are encouraged to go on placement to gain experience of the world of work in the third term of their second year . |
| 14 | Some of the aquarium-raised Gore Point dog-whelks ( Crothers , 1977 ) reached 30mm by the end of their second year . |
| 15 | Part-time students will pass automatically into Stage II as soon as they meet the requirements , usually at the end of their second year . |
| 16 | If they are able to construct an approved programme of study over six terms from that date they are then eligible to enter Stage II in term 2 or 3 of their second year . |
| 17 | Undergraduate scholarships of the value of approximately £200 are open for award to students , usually in the summer vacation of their second year of study , for travel abroad directed towards the enlargement of their experience of music . |
| 18 | A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘ |
| 19 | Several Manchester United players likely to be involved as well and they 're into the second half of their second leg European cup tie in Turkey . |
| 20 | The Konica League part-timers had only 16 minutes left of their second leg in Cork to negotiate when late goals by Pat Morley and substitute Johnny Glynn earned the Irish champions victory on away goals . |
| 21 | By 1982 the dean was proposing introducing a ‘ demonstration project ’ which motivated students could enter ( with no specific academic prerequisites ) at the end of their second college year . |
| 22 | These applications were vetoed at the time by de Gaulle and his allies , and this veto was upheld in 1967 at the time of their second application . |
| 23 | The band accompany the September 28 release of their second LP ‘ Stigma ’ with their biggest UK tour to date , starting in Liverpool on September 25 . |
| 24 | Reg took over as caretaker-manager but after only ten minutes of their second match realised that Athletico were out of their depth in Division One and , sure enough , the club was bundled into the Second , finishing the season fifteen points adrift at the bottom . |
| 25 | At least England made a slightly more respectable fist of their second innings . |
| 26 | But Ravi Ratnayeke and Asoka de Silva took Sri Lanka to within 70 minutes of their second draw of the two-match series . |
| 27 | South Africa , for their part , dignified in defeat , can bask in the afterglow of their second coming , content in the knowledge of having bridged a great divide . |
| 28 | EMF issue a new single in advance of their second album . |
| 29 | The failure of ambitious projects within the Council was evident by the time of its second session in 1950 . |
| 30 | The age of the lizard is important in determining the quality of its second tail . |