Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 2 | His wife , Jane , who had been convicted on two counts of extortion and conspiracy , was sentenced to three months . |
| 3 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 4 | When I got out into the corridor I saw that a piece of wire had been strung between two beams on either side of the block and that a sort of ladder was leaning against it . |
| 5 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 6 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 7 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 8 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 9 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 10 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 11 | Her Majesty has honoured the Works by visiting it on three occasions , the first on 11 March 1948 as Princess Elizabeth , when she toured the Works and inspected the two new saloons that had been converted from two ex-Chairman 's Saloons ( built Wolverton 1942 ) for the personal use of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 12 | Dunkin thought that two groups of headlines ‘ each consisting of two sets would be required only if four formes were constantly in use ’ ( p.301 ) , i.e. if The Fairy Queen had been printed on two presses ( two formes per press , working simultaneously : one forme in use ; the other standing by ) or , conceivably , printed on four presses ( the presses doing only one side of a sheet each ) . |
| 13 | Stempel had been replaced by two men : John Smith is the new chief executive officer and John Smale takes over as chairman . |
| 14 | The teachers had been trained at two training colleges in Kemmendine , those for primary schools studying for one year and those for middle schools for two years . |
| 15 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 16 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 17 | By early July the two Meteor F.4s had been joined by two Meteor T.7s ( and a Tiger Moth ! ) and the crews were introduced to the ‘ joys ’ of jet asymmetric flying . |
| 18 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 19 | The drafts produced earlier had been piloted in two groups during the summer and autumn of 1992 . |
| 20 | By the time we returned J7 HPC , its pretty yellow nose had been broken in two places . |
| 21 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 22 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 23 | After this timewasting procedure , George Shackel related how he and his manservant had been attacked by two labourers in Kings Meadow . |
| 24 | I remember that year : Elio Vittorini was living in a house which had been reduced to two walls . ) |
| 25 | The top coin shows Henry VII ( 1485-1509 ) ; it is the same generic royal image which had been used for two centuries , as can be seen from the close similarity of the image used by Edward I ( compare fig. 3 ) . |
| 26 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 27 | He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths . |
| 28 | The original bookcases of carved oak still lined the walls , although they now housed the Laboratory 's not inconsiderable scientific library , while extra shelf-room for bound copies of national and international journals had been provided by two steel movable units which divided the room into three bays . |
| 29 | Bourequat , a prisoner of conscience and French citizen , had been imprisoned with two brothers in the legendary Tazmamert , an underground fortress at the foot of the Atlas mountains . |
| 30 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |