Example sentences of "was [verb] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was given a second one after the interval . |
| 2 | It was while he was bringing a second helping of kedgeree to Fishbane that the row broke out a few tables away . |
| 3 | Thibaut was considered the second most powerful man in France after the king . |
| 4 | He got up and was about to return to his house to wash the dirt from Meg 's grave from his hands when Cranston swaggered in , throwing the door open as if he was announcing the Second Coming . |
| 5 | The tiara was in essence a white cap , having two bands at the back like a mitre , but it had incorporated in it a coronet round the lower rim to which was added a second coronet under Pope Boniface VIII at the end of the thirteenth century , symbolizing sacerdotal and regal powers . |
| 6 | A 46 year old Worcestershire man , who was driving the second car , also died . |
| 7 | He said the secret was to hide a second box . |
| 8 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 9 | On top of all his other commitments , Lewis was writing the second volume of his space trilogy . |
| 10 | He was granted a second term by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke in a move that effectively guarantees the existence of the Board for the foreseeable future . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So she was offered a second flat . |
| 13 | The second was to get my knitting room organised and the third was to buy a second machine ( a chunky ) . |
| 14 | There was intense opposition to these proposals but the only concession made in both instances was to require a second ballot if less than 50 per cent of those entitled to vote did so . |
| 15 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 16 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 17 | None of the belligerents intended to fight what was called the second world war , they all entered into conflict , they all began er a rearmament programme with the idea of using violence as a means to secure lesser objectives . |
| 18 | After it was found a second time — minus the tools — Mr Brettel , 48 , of Ash , Hants , said : ‘ I thought they were winding me up . |
| 19 | The old city was abandoned a second time , given over to romantics , theorists , transients and dogs . |
| 20 | In 1963 , the BBC was allocated a second TV channel ( BBC 2 ) and by the end of the decade there were also a large number of local , commercial , and non-commercial , radio stations . |
| 21 | What a man like Siward would do , who was hiding a second time in a forest and had blown the withdrawal within minutes of the Normans ' arrival . |
| 22 | That was to allow a second face to be opened to help speed up production . |
| 23 | He subsequently played a notable part , harassing the enemy behind the lines , and was awarded a second bar to his DSO . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This attitude was no longer conceivable to an American mind where the basic body silhouette was changing every second year . |
| 26 | He used the toilet-bucket carefully , so as not to soil the floor , and was grateful it was removed every second day . |
| 27 | was to get the second hand timber and , and he had a couple of lads off the dole in Mold there , knocking the nails well all he had to do |
| 28 | The process of demystifying the monarchy , necessary if it was to survive the second half of the twentieth century , turned it instead into a grand soap-opera , in which some minor members of the family seemed only too happy to play a demeaning part , one of the more absurd examples occurring when several of the Queen 's children took part in the television party-game show It 's A Knockout ! |
| 29 | ‘ Dr Henry is extremely short-sighted and as he bent down to try to find them , he was punched a second time , which caused him to fall back and land on a bench , ’ Mr Thomas said . |
| 30 | In July I was readmitted a second time , having finally obtained recognition of my French doctorate after more than a year . |