Example sentences of "second [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Peter shrugged on his second sleeve and began to button himself up , collar neat , belt buckled . |
| 32 | This points to the second record that randomized to the home address . |
| 33 | However , it is important to remember that after 1935 the traditional industries recovered in the run up to a second war and continued to be prosperous until the early 1960s . |
| 34 | He took a second picture and pocketed the camera . |
| 35 | Then I played a second lad and beat him too . |
| 36 | The visiting party , including an HMI in attendance , was horrified , dropped their agenda for the second day and went through the problems as they had perceived them with the management group and the Academic Board : |
| 37 | Officials could not say if the Queen Mother was expected to stay in hospital for a second night and did not divulge the nature of the obstruction . |
| 38 | His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 . |
| 39 | A target of 201 presented a definite challenge and when Ambrose immediately had Hudson deflecting a catch to first slip second ball and bowled Rushmere off the bottom of the bat in his fourth over , the balance was , if anything , slightly tilted towards the West Indies . |
| 40 | Bernard agreed to give the shop a second chance and hired Jean Revers . |
| 41 | It was the second court that contained the infamous corps of executioners . |
| 42 | Matilda took the second slice and started eating it slowly . |
| 43 | Both teams included their second goalkeepers and made two other changes from the first Test . |
| 44 | I drew Lewis in the second round and came in second behind him . |
| 45 | In his first North-East division fight he was rocked by a tremendous right hand from Hartlepool BC 's John Kelly in the second round and looked out on his feet . |
| 46 | Martin Lee had fought his way back into the event ( organised on the double elimination format ) , having lost to Steven Amey in the second round and played very aggressive tennis in his victories over Justin Layne and Ben Haran . |
| 47 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 48 | The next issue reported the second debate and suggested that a model would help MPs to understand the scheme . |
| 49 | The first was a good attempt but yeah you missed misled or confused then there could be several others I felt you could 've picked up that would be highlighting the second appointment that carried the whole process through |
| 50 | It seems that the professional game , in contrast to our European and world rivals , has revered the second tenet but stifled the first . |
| 51 | She drew up a second chair and came and sat by him . |
| 52 | Kolchinsky sat down on the second chair and handed Philpott a brown packet . |
| 53 | However , the difficulty in deciding cause and effect is illustrated by the fact that the angiosperms appeared after the extinction of the Second Age and coincided with the Age of Low Feeders . |
| 54 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 55 | State radio confirmed the second attack and said five people were killed , but Buana Kabue , president of the Zaire Human Rights League , said between 30 and 50 had died . |
| 56 | Guatemala , receiving a one-goal handicap start , surprisingly led 5–1 at the end of the first chukka as the Argentines appeared very nervous , but they scored four goals in the second chukka and dominated the rest of the game . |
| 57 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 58 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 59 | They were in the big room on the second floor that served as Frick 's office . |
| 60 | And then someone threw up a window on the second floor and demanded to know what the hell was going on . |