Example sentences of "[vb past] two [noun] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cohen et al ( 1988 ) reported two case histories of runners who , unaware that they had conceived continued intense running regimes during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy ; both women had assumed their amenorrhoea was due to endurance training . |
| 2 | To get started on the making of the wine you needed three or four bees which were freely available from friends or neighbours , you filled a jam jar with water to about half an inch from the top , added two desert spoonfuls of sugar , placed the ‘ bees ’ on the water , covered with muslin and waited for a fortnight . |
| 3 | McCutcheon , 24 , who is originally from Dromore , Co Down , faced two Customs charges of attempted exportation of one Ecstasy tab and four LSD ‘ squares ’ and two police charges of possessing the drugs worth £80 . |
| 4 | IRA kneecap victim McHugh , 18 , faced two Customs charges of attempted exportation of 41 Ecstasy tabs and 16 amphetamine tablets . |
| 5 | The maps held in the archives of the Sechem — the keepers of Yek knowledge and the interpreters of their law — showed two land masses of continental size on the far side of the Great Sea . |
| 6 | The jury heard how Ferguson and Smillie collected two five-gallon drums of diesel from Oban railway pier on the day of the fire , 12 May last year , and were seen delivering it to Ferguson 's house . |
| 7 | Powys Transport delivered two lorry loads of materials to the show , which opens tomorrow . |
| 8 | TF Bayonet was also charged with protection of US bases and sent two assault companies of helicopter-borne troops from the 87th Infantry to block the PDF base at Fort Amador . |
| 9 | At the centre of the defended enclosure lay two courtyard structures of uncertain function and a precinct housing several temple-like buildings . |
| 10 | David took two quarter bottles of champagne out of the mini-bar , and collected two tooth mugs . |
| 11 | In mid-March Badran met two politburo members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) . |
| 12 | The Rules Sub-Committee , set up after the Extraordinary General Meeting in 1983 , and comprising Basil Peacock , Jim McDonald ( Captain ) , Alec Stevens and ‘ the Club 's solicitor as needs be ’ , produced two draft sets of rules , the crucial difference between them being the definition of ‘ member with full voting rights ’ , i.e. seven-day male only ? or all other categories ? ( e.g. social , ladies and five-day ) . |
| 13 | Eighteenth-century specialists Galerie Cailleux sold two Fragonard drawings of Old Master paintings at FFr50,000 each . |
| 14 | Then he held two men friends of his estranged wife at gunpoint and forced them to drive him 200 miles to her secret address at Barrow-in- Furness , Cumbria . |