Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] the second " in BNC.

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1 I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage .
2 The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 .
3 At least 12 other women candidates went through to the second round of voting .
4 The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast .
5 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
6 Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window .
7 Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike .
8 American driver Ross Cheever , winner of the first race of the series , went out of the second round event after tangling with German Volker Weidler , also in a Reynard .
9 Garth McCartney and Philip Young were the only drivers who could challenge Emerson but they both went out on the second stage , McCartney retiring with broken throttle linkage and Young crashing .
10 However , Nicol failed to capitalise on his lead and went out on the second match ball .
11 It was a movement whose history went back into the Second World War , into the New York clubs that had bred Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , and the new jazz of be-bop .
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