Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Wright 's dazzling run destroyed two defenders before he slotted in the opening goal — and before the finish he was unlucky not to add two more .
2 Their veteran prop Kevin Ward commented : ‘ I never knew there was so much intense rivalry between the two clubs until I came to St Helens .
3 He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland .
4 But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay .
5 He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road .
6 Mr Sawar had acted as surety for the two companies when they borrowed from BCCI and he had , in December 1985 , charged the sum of £300,000 standing to his credit with BCCI with payment of the debts of the two companies to BCCI .
7 The two areas where there appeared to most difficulty in getting away were Leicestershire and Speyside .
8 I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor .
9 A man answering a description of Magee , who was knee-capped in Northern Ireland several years ago , was said to have been lagging behind the two terrorists as they ran from their gold-coloured Ford Granada getaway car , which they had abandoned in Charnwood Street , Derby , minutes after the shooting on Monday evening .
10 A good place to begin is with the goals that you had reached about two weeks before you went on holiday .
11 I rang up after two weeks and I spoke to the nurse and she said , oh , your cholesterol 's alright .
12 Leslie 's life hung in the balance for more than two weeks as he lay in a coma in the intensive care unit at the hospital , which has a specialist head injuries unit .
13 The piece is very closely related to the other two pieces that he did for flute and clarinet .
14 Frances explains : ‘ I decided to go into special education two years after I qualified as a teacher .
15 Two years since I started on the big glass .
16 Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail .
17 Officials from the HSE told MPs that their work on implementing the recommendation of Britain 's advisory committee on asbestos was held up for two years while they worked on the EEC plan .
18 The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight .
19 The body of the toddler was found in February two days after he disappeared from a shopping centre in Bootle .
20 Two days after he returned from the city , Athelstan rose early and went to examine his small garden .
21 Now , two days before he sailed for New York , Mary smuggled him in to see the child .
22 Well they sent me , I went on a computer course two days before I went to in hospital and was away for eight weeks and I forgot totally
23 She had to try another three times over two days before she succeeded in talking her way in .
24 His symptoms worsened over the next two days and he returned to the nutritionist .
25 He confiscated two apples that she had in her handbag , and warned her about penalties for importing plant and vegetable matter .
26 My uncle Fred , whom we had stayed with as Viceroy of India , was a Fellow of All Souls , the only college without undergraduates , and was its Warden for two terms before he died in 1933 .
27 POLICE caught two burglars as they broke into a Darlington house , a court was told .
28 We furnished two rooms when we came in here
29 Firemen found the charred remains of the two sisters as they sifted through the debris .
30 ‘ That was a very important win for us after our last two games when we lost to Plymouth and Grimsby , ’ said Crosby .
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