Example sentences of "the second [noun sg] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Gas is to cut its charges by 2 per cent from October — the second reduction this year . |
| 2 | This can be upgraded to the Pentium chip when it becomes available in the second quarter this year . |
| 3 | After attempting last month 's first 8-bars of the 16-bar solo from Linda Ronstadt 's That 'll Be The Day , we 'll crack on with the second half this month . |
| 4 | It was the second explosion this week in India 's largest city . |
| 5 | ‘ Now we 've got two people who admit going to the second floor that afternoon : Pascoe and Hunter-Blair . |
| 6 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 7 | It 's the second incident this week involving British tourists in America . |
| 8 | It was the second incident this week . |
| 9 | During the second year this feeling persisted , but less strongly . |
| 10 | The long road to Wembley winds its way into the second round this weekend and cup romance takes us to Cheltenham to see the Town ; the Robins getting ready for their big day . |
| 11 | To avoid exaggerating this necessary aspect of the stones ( necessary because the later books are not addressed to more mature readers but to those who , feeling they really know Jack , Alick and Terence , would resent their becoming staid and solemn ) , Kingston introduced in the second book another trio of lads who filled the spaces left by the midshipmen now promoted in The Three Lieutenants , a sequel if ever there was one . |
| 12 | For the second time that night the prison door slammed shut . |
| 13 | For the second time that night she slid silently in at a garden gate . |
| 14 | Ann 's dragged out of bed at five in the morning , for the second time that night . |
| 15 | Just like a shark , she thought for the second time that night , and the image did n't entirely displease her . |
| 16 | She got as far as the other side of the wide bed before being dragged back and pinned beneath fitzAlan 's forceful weight for the second time that night . |
| 17 | There is no such ring in the Reeve 's Tale , but it is hard not to notice that the motif seems to have been displaced and taken over by Absolon as he approaches Alison 's window for the second time that night , in order to deceive her : A sure example of intertextual inference is found in John 's use of the cradle trick ; he envies Alayn 's success with Malyne , and decides he will " " arise and auntre [ chance ] it " " himself . |
| 18 | Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day . |
| 19 | For the second time that day , Corbett was shaken awake , an insistent voice calling his name . |
| 20 | She was beside herself , shouting at the top of her voice for the second time that day . |
| 21 | And for the second time that day , the bride vowed : ‘ I will ! ’ |
| 22 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 23 | For the second time that day she went to the canteen . |
| 24 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 25 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 26 | John Major shaved carefully for the second time that day . |
| 27 | For the second time that day , his sovereign had assured him that he was the only man to lead the country through the crisis and had asked him to reconsider his resignation . |
| 28 | For the second time that day I scrambled down the slope of the hill towards the sad little car . |
| 29 | The coroner bawled at the porter to follow them and , for the second time that day , Athelstan heard the confession of a man about to meet Death . |
| 30 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |