Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 2 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
| 3 | They promised to drive two riders through twelve hoops of blazing straw . |
| 4 | The companies involved included two car plants , six cement companies , a chemical plant , an engineering firm , a fertilizer plant , eight ghee factories and 11 roti plants . |
| 5 | ‘ Between 1964 and 1970 the Labour government tried to serve two masters . |
| 6 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 7 | I explain that Tod Richardson tried to do two jobs at once : one , have his boys reinforce the message about the ten thousand debt , and two , have another crew search the house . |
| 8 | It was not until March 1950 that the British ceased to rank the Middle East equally with Europe , and promised to send two divisions to the continent in the event of war . |
| 9 | He therefore tried to ride two horses , attempting to pad out Labour 's newly acquired eleventh commandment , ‘ Thou shalt not promote homosexuality ’ , with some points of principle . |
| 10 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |
| 11 | Daniels proposed to add two forms to the Senior , one at the top and one at the bottom , and to take on another master . |
| 12 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 13 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 14 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 15 | They produced fry two days later which were born during the afternoon . |
| 16 | Coombes , now 17 , of Cardiff , admitted causing two deaths by reckless driving . |
| 17 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 18 | And there was a memo to John from yourself , tenth of Jan , that my manager has passed to me , it said you 'd given two options that you could go in on Saturday and erm |
| 19 | Helen and Tony came bringing two plate tarts made by Helen and all the attention was focussed on Moira , giving Chris time to overcome his nervousness , helped by Helen 's tact . |
| 20 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
| 21 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
| 22 | I 'd earned two shadows , bullnecks |
| 23 | That was what Lord Weinstock did when his GEC seemed threatened two years ago . |
| 24 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | She 'd seen two men fighting in the street and seen them run past her . |
| 26 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
| 27 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 28 | The equaliser Darlington 's endeavour deserved came two minutes before the break . |
| 29 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 30 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |