Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm the second longest serving . |
| 2 | I was the second half , an extension of him , and instead of complementing him I 'd thrown shit all over him . |
| 3 | Er no er I was the second eldest . |
| 4 | We were a very respectable family and I was the second child . |
| 5 | I can only suspect that the speed of my progress through the Division Lobby , as I was the second Member out that night , may have caused confusion . |
| 6 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 7 | " You 're the second person to say that to me today , " Patrick murmured . |
| 8 | But that 's the same as if you willed spouse had died before you for instance , and you were the second of two to die and she had n't or she might have everything to the children and you still got a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , you ca n't avoid the inheritance tax in those circumstances . |
| 9 | Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni is the most exotic character in Trollope 's novel ; she is the second daughter of Dr. Vesey Stanhope , one of the diocesan clergymen in Barchester . |
| 10 | She was the second child and second daughter in the family of one son and three daughters of Dr Richard Marsden Pankhurst , barrister and republican , and his wife Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v. ] , daughter of Robert Goulden , a prosperous Manchester cotton manufacturer . |
| 11 | She was the second daughter and fourth child in the family of two sons and five daughters of Frederick Cons , a maker of pianoforte cases for Broadwood 's , and his wife Esther Goodair , the daughter of a Stockport mill-owner . |
| 12 | She was the second of four children , two boys and two girls . |
| 13 | But sh she was the second best shooter there . |
| 14 | We were the big trading nation , and even today we are the second largest by way of the percentage of GDP exported and imported — we are second only to West Germany . |
| 15 | We are the second most deprived local authority area in the country according to the Department of the Environment 's own indices . |
| 16 | We are the second lowest area for population density in the UK and the 13th lowest in the EC . ’ |
| 17 | We are the second biggest tubes supplier in Europe and No 3 in the United States . |
| 18 | We were the second crew on the scene and we did not leave the crash site all day . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We were the second example of 1960 's privatisation ( the Bluebell Railway in Sussex being the first ) but our 25-year hire purchase was the first and only one which British Rail permitted . |
| 20 | Yeah , second battalion Black Watch were there , we were the second battalion row . |
| 21 | It 's the second car designed , developed and manufactured in collaboration with its part-owner , Honda . |
| 22 | It 's the second time around for both of them , but they are clearly devoted to each other . |
| 23 | It 's the second mix on the B-side most spinners are plumping for , riding into tranceland on a deep repetitive bassline and helped along by fountains of floaty keyboards that wash you away into hypno-city . |
| 24 | ‘ I took Fleck off and that did n't work so I took Le Saux off , put Eddie up front and he got a vital goal — and it 's the second time he 's done that for us . ’ |
| 25 | He said : ‘ It 's the second time I 've suffered this sort of problem . |
| 26 | It 's the second time in a month that the Highbury hit-man has been accused of insulting fans . |
| 27 | With over 2000 licensed stores to cater for , it 's the second largest wine outlet in the country after the Co-op . |
| 28 | They do n't if that Thursday 's May the first then it 's the second Thursday but it 's normally the first Thursday in May . |
| 29 | If I could lead you from that paragraph on page three fifty over to page three six four page three six four , one two three , four paragraphs from the top it 's ab it 's the second of two paragraphs that begins the Board affirms the church 's th that Christ teaches that marriage is special and divorce is not the way he would wish for his people and then this sentence no-one would wish to condens condemn someone to stay in a marriage which is beyond redeeming . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's the second door on the left . |