Example sentences of "[vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |
| 2 | During this time the headteacher and librarian visited two schools with project experience in order to gain further insights into the way in which their proposal might be developed . |
| 3 | They visited two booksellers ' shops , looking for a volume of poems by the Aberdonian Latin poet , Arthur Johnson , who had been Principal of the Marischal College . |
| 4 | Fingers across the map to retrace their journey — from the New Inn they went to the English chapel , walked to the shore , saw the Marischal College , were welcomed at the Town House , viewed Old Aberdeen , looked at the Old College , visited the King 's College where Sir Alexander Gordon was professor of Medicine , and visited two bookshops . |
| 5 | He then headed two minority governments which were dependent on the Liberals , and a National Government which had a clear Conservative majority from October 1931 onwards . |
| 6 | He maintained two Jesuits in north Wales and two in south Wales , later based in the ‘ college ’ of St Frances Xavier at a farm called the Cwm , in Llanrothal , Herefordshire . |
| 7 | First he pretended two Angels found a wallet full of cash in New York and returned it to a pensioner who had been attacked . |
| 8 | He contributed two articles to the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1875–88 ) , for which his father also wrote , and thirty-nine articles to the eleventh edition ( 1910–11 ) , seven of which were revised for the fourteenth ( 1929 ) . |
| 9 | Wilson Mark II contributed two innovations to the practice of Cabinet government , both on the public-expenditure side . |
| 10 | Alliss , in foursomes partnership with Peter Dawson ( morning ) and Bernard Hunt ( afternoon ) , contributed two points in his team 's 8½ to 3½ triumph over Bruce Critchley 's Players . |
| 11 | In May the Cramlington Branch of the League of Health & Beauty celebrated their fifth birthday at Newcastle Civic Centre and at the invitation of Maureen Murray our N.E. Area 's Display Team contributed two items to the programme of demonstrations . |
| 12 | The two systems of medical work , say these writers , produced and sustained two cosmologies of medicine . |
| 13 | Although the Bonhomme Richard sank two days later , the Battle of Flamborough Head was an American victory , for the Serapis and the Countess of Scarborough were sailed back to France as prizes , and 504 prisoners were taken , including , a bitter blow for the Royal Navy , 26 officers . |
| 14 | WENDY RUSSELL became the first woman to hole in one twice during a top-class event yesterday when she sank two tee-shots in the opening round of the British Women 's Seniors ' Championship at Wrexham . |
| 15 | The Act provided two sets of compulsory powers . |
| 16 | The defendant , who was driving his car in Jermyn Street , was arrested after a roadside breath test proved positive and taken to a police station , where he provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 17 | He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 18 | Spain provided two saints , out of a total of five ; I was sorry to leave out Thomas More , though he was clearly a less important European influence than Erasmus . |
| 19 | His head cleared at his second , where he thrashed two drivers on to the green , while he went to two under for the day at his fifth , the short 14th , where he hit a seven-iron to 7ft . |
| 20 | By this William she bore two children , a boy , Maximilian , and a daughter , Sylvestre . |
| 21 | The water was getting hot and becoming clouded with the residue of the last course , so I crumbled two Oxo cubes into it and stirred . |
| 22 | And anyway , if I monitored two babies , I would be creating the same environment for both of them , would n't I ? |
| 23 | He confiscated two apples that she had in her handbag , and warned her about penalties for importing plant and vegetable matter . |
| 24 | Salako , once part of Taylor 's new dawn , severed two tendons and had to fly to America for £100,000 of treatment . |
| 25 | It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean . |
| 26 | Two steps farther in , and the creature moved two steps as well . |
| 27 | In 1984 , when the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill was being debated in the House of Lords , Lord Scarman , who had spoken at second Reading , moved two amendments during the Committee stage . |
| 28 | Dearden turned Tony Philliskirk 's spot kick around the post as Birmingham moved two points clear of Stoke with a game in hand . |
| 29 | Guildford moved two points clear in Conference B with an emphatic , expected victory over Basingstoke and still have three games in hand , but a late slip-up in not inconceivable . |
| 30 | BANGOR moved two points closer to promotion to Senior I with a victory over Down in Downpatrick . |