Example sentences of "[vb past] two [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Wilson Mark II contributed two innovations to the practice of Cabinet government , both on the public-expenditure side . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The two systems of medical work , say these writers , produced and sustained two cosmologies of medicine . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Act provided two sets of compulsory powers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rodney cracked two eggs into the frying pan . |
| 14 | In 1847 he described two boys with what was obviously pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy , described twenty-one years later by Guillaume Duchenne . |
| 15 | There are instances , fortunately very rare , of mothers simulating illness in their children in order to get medical attention — this is known as ‘ Munchausen-by-proxy ’ or ‘ Meadow 's syndrome ’ after Professor Roy Meadows , who first described two cases in 1977 . |
| 16 | In 1844 Youatt described two types of Sussex : one closer to the Devon stock , being smaller , light and agile , the other larger and more like a Hereford except that its coat colour was whole . |
| 17 | The suggestion that there might be a ‘ precoeliac ’ state was first made by Weinstein who described two patients with dermatitis herpetiformis and normal jejunal biopsies in whom typical coeliac like enteropathy developed some weeks after 20 g gluten was added to their already gluten containing diet . |
| 18 | It was the first time Jewellery had participated in the competition which involved two teams from Wedgwood and from Coalport , Precision Studios , Royal Tuscan , Alexandra Pottery , Johnson Brothers and Mason 's Ironstone . |
| 19 | Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 involved two cases of price label switching in a supermarket . |
| 20 | Another experiment involved two sets of six sweets . |
| 21 | This involved two weeks of solid driving through the Amazon rainforest in appalling conditions — there were continual problems with mud , water and basically the lack of any discernible road ! |
| 22 | Ball , who has not started a first team match since the Shrewsbury trip in mid February , beat two defenders before rifling home a glorious 15-yard strike in the 52nd minute . |
| 23 | Castor twice sired two champions in a litter , his most famous son being Ch. |
| 24 | Hasso sired two champions in one litter , Ch. |
| 25 | I built two caves at the back , and placed a flat rock at each back corner to give a choice of spawning areas . |
| 26 | He loosened two buttons on the shoulders of her fine cotton-shift dress , which fluttered to the floor . |
| 27 | Bureaucracy created two kinds of reality , one bureaucratic and derived from internally evaluated actions by knowledgeable professionals , the other the reality of a passive and uninformed citizenry . |
| 28 | Still , he created two characters in The Lord of the Rings of particular suggestiveness , both of them originally on the right side but seduced or corroded by evil , and so especially likely to have analogues in the real world : these are Denethor and Saruman , each of them seen faintly satirically , almost politically . |
| 29 | London created two tries through running and passing and got another from a pushover . |
| 30 | Richard Kedie , of Forest Road , had claimed there were no drugs in his house but police later found two quantities of cannabis amounting to 41 grams . |