Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons .
2 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on .
3 In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands .
4 There was there was a case of one girl who back in nineteen sixty eight she killed two boys when she was eleven .
5 You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so
6 At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon .
7 In the late Seventies he did two spells at the Royal National Theatre , playing Hamlet and Tamburlaine the Great on the move to the South Bank .
8 His friendship with Byron fired his own literary ambitions and after returning to London in 1812 he published two volumes on his travels .
9 He was greatly saddened by the death of his only son in action at Ypres , and in 1917 he published two poems in The Times , ‘ Bond and Free ’ and ‘ Wooden Crosses ’ , which aroused wide interest .
10 In 1317 he sent two cardinals to mediate between Edward and Bruce , who was regarded by John XXII as a pretender .
11 In 1847 he described two boys with what was obviously pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy , described twenty-one years later by Guillaume Duchenne .
12 In October and December 1930 he held two dinners to promote the idea , the guests including Ramsay MacDonald , Lloyd George , Lord Reading , Winston Churchill , and Sir Robert Horne .
13 In 1698 he equipped two ships to explore the Mississippi ; he also tried to encourage a Huguenot settlement on the Gulf of Mexico , and to float a joint-stock company to exploit Florida .
14 Despite a couple of fine LPs , among them ‘ The Most Of ’ , Edwards clicked more as a writer than a singer , and in 1966 he gave two songs to the Spencer Davis Group , ‘ Keep On Running ’ and ‘ Somebody Help Me ’ , both of which hit Number One .
15 In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years .
16 In 1799 he spent two days in what he called ‘ proud Gallio-like Portadown ’ .
17 In 1736 he received two commissions from Graham : the construction of a nine-feet zenith sector ( the arc of which Graham divided himself ) for the French Académie des Sciences expedition to Lapland under Pierre de Maupertuis to measure the length of a degree of the meridian ; and preparing brass rods and scales for the Royal Society and the Académie for new standards to show the relation between the English yard and the French half-toise .
18 When Everton 's title aspirations exploded at Oxford in 1986 he blamed two misses on a new pair of boots , switching back to his worn favourites and slamming a hat-trick past Southampton !
19 Then in 1773–4 he made two designs for a bridge to cross the Severn in Stourport , Worcestershire , the first to be of timber with stone abutments and the second a single arch of brick but resting on a cast-iron centre .
20 but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract
21 In 1910 they issued two manifestos : ‘ We wish to represent machines or figures actually in motion … movement or light destroy the substance of objects . ’
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