Example sentences of "[vb past] two [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They found two soldiers in civilian clothes in it and a Thompson sub-machine gun . |
| 32 | After a while , they left the watercolour ( 'Not a very adventurous subject , ’ Isobel said ) and found two chairs in a corner . |
| 33 | And I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that and I did n't know what I shou . |
| 34 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 35 | He 'd come in after work and found two cans of baked beans in the cupboard . |
| 36 | " The skinners found two bullets in your buffalo 's head , Joey , " he said excitedly . |
| 37 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 38 | When he died , we found two papers in his desk . |
| 39 | Advocate Depute Elizabeth Jarvie said that Graeme immediately went along the track where he found two trolleys on the line and pulled them off before the sleeper arrived . |
| 40 | While pursuing his family tree he found two Tyacks amongst those who held land in the Cornish manor of Binnerton , one of whom held the office of manorial reeve . |
| 41 | ‘ I found two tubes of toothpaste in the girl 's bag , and one tube in the young man 's bag . |
| 42 | At the end of August 1959 , after six years of patient searching , Alcock found two comets within a week . |
| 43 | in the crushed coral substrate , I found two pieces of rusted iron looking not unlike broken shell about the size of drawing pin heads . |
| 44 | We really found two kinds of opposition . |
| 45 | In McKinsey ( 1978 ) , General Electric 's Vice President in charge of corporate strategy listed two sets of criteria used in his company for determining the location of each SBU on each axis . |
| 46 | The First Coalition pursued two lines in the search for peace . |
| 47 | Haughey dismissed two ministers before the no confidence vote . |
| 48 | No mean combatant , Mr Holdsworth dismissed two solicitors for not pursuing his case with sufficient vigour . |
| 49 | It will be his first Five Nations contest though in his debut international the graduate of the University of Ulster dismissed two Fijians for dangerous tackles against England . |
| 50 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 51 | In her study of the chemical literature , Brown found that the peak of citations to published papers occurred two years after publication , and formed a Poisson distribution . |
| 52 | But then , for the benefit , as he wrote , of those ‘ who would not be persuaded by any other argument than authority ’ , he mentioned two texts of Popes Calixtus I and Gregory I , which supported the view which he had arrived at by reason . |
| 53 | Hawkins said : ‘ You mentioned two ways of removing the clamp . |
| 54 | I tackled up with a simple running bullet stopped two inches from the size 6 hook . |
| 55 | The BEP staff therefore approached two Colleges of Further Education and they began to provide courses on the estate . |
| 56 | Selkirk — also on six points but having played one game more than both GH-K and Stirling County — snatched two points at Riverside Park a fortnight ago and followed up with a Border League success against Kelso last Friday in which they scored four glorious tries and were further heartened by the return from serious injury of Rodney Pow and Graham Marshall . |
| 57 | ‘ I punctured two tyres on the car . ’ |
| 58 | You might go and collect , oh er what Coliupe Collium , Collium Maculatum , spotted come up , you 'd go and cut it , you know , bring it in , get the Succus Conium that would keep you going , you know , sometimes he would he 'd say Oh blast you , we used two garlands of it . |
| 59 | During its 1100 years of ascendance , from about 2500 BC to 1400 BC , the Minoan civilization of Crete used two forms of script . |
| 60 | When asked questions he gave one word answers , though he used two words on occasion , as in ‘ boys swimming ’ , ‘ wet play ’ . |