Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] two [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 2 | He told the reporter that he later lived for two years on a barge near Shrewsbury , during which time he suffered a stroke but refused to go to hospital . |
| 3 | He travelled widely in those days , often accompanied by his wife , and they lived for two years in the United States where he was responsible for ICI 's affairs in North and South America . |
| 4 | Jordan also asked for two offences of attempting to obtain money by deception to be taken into consideration . |
| 5 | Christopher Appleton , 18 , of Highmoor Road , Darlington , admitted burglary and asked for two offences to be considered . |
| 6 | Anthony Killen , 28 , of no fixed address , admitted burglary , receving stolen goods and asked for two burglaries to be taken into consideration . |
| 7 | Right , Chair , P A G asked for two reports to be produced as part of the budget process , looking in more detail at the budget , and the two specific reports that were asked for , were fire safety and trimming . |
| 8 | The second layer antibody , biotinylatd goat anti-mouse IgG ( Vector Laboratories , Burlingame , CA , USA ) was applied at a dilution of 1:50 and incubated for two hours at room temperature . |
| 9 | This family lived between two farms up a narrow , deeply rutted country lane . |
| 10 | Youths rioted for two nights on the streets of Telford in the Midlands after police marksmen shot dead Ian Gordon early on Aug. 12 ; the 24-year-old black man , who had a history of psychiatric problems , had pointed a firearm at the policemen ; two witnesses were reported to have told police that the gun was unloaded and had no firing mechanism . |
| 11 | The Russian minister sent to Constantinople in 1724 was ordered to choose four students to be attached to his staff to learn the language ; while the establishment of 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which provided for two students to be attached to each Russian mission abroad , allowed that in the Turkish capital to have as many as eight . |
| 12 | We were not far below the hanging glacier bivouac , where we stopped for two hours before pushing on to make the most of the night . |
| 13 | Then Stephen beat off two defenders in a run to the line and Dave Groves met the resulting cross with a diving header which was cleared in the goalmouth . |
| 14 | She bought a successful suit for restitution of conjugal rights , expecting to move back to Neeld 's palatial house in Grosvenor Square , but , to spite her , Neeld moved into two rooms in a hotel . |
| 15 | John Simon Howley , 36 , of no fixed abode , appeared before Darlington magistrates yesterday charged with two offences of burglary and one of attempted burglary . |
| 16 | WEDNESDAY 'S UEFA Cup hopes perished with two pieces of slack defending at Hillsborough . |
| 17 | When his father died , Marshall ventured with two partners into yarn manufacture by the new process of spinning flax by machinery . |
| 18 | Custodial sentences ranged from two months to eight years . |
| 19 | Their Anglo-Italian Cup-tie with Ascoli erupted in two minutes of fury — but the Football League will take no action . |
| 20 | Micky Wynn used all his 3,000hp to make over 40 knots ( 75kph ) until , with a neat piece of boat handling , he stopped alongside two men on a Carley float life-raft . |
| 21 | In Hungary , for example , during 1967–1968 , the proportion " premature " ( i.e. under 2,500 grammes birth weight ) was higher among births that occurred within two years after the previous one . |
| 22 | Treatment failure occurred in two patients of the steroid group , both within the first week . |
| 23 | Intestinal obstruction — episodes of small bowel obstruction occurred in two patients with definite Crohn 's disease ( 20% ) , in three with indeterminate colitis ( 30% ) , and in eight ( 13% ) with ulcerative colitis . |
| 24 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 25 | And you referred to two sorts of allocations , one , those in adopted local plans and the figure was if you could remind me please . |
| 26 | In the previous section we concentrated on two axes of the search space : time and level of abstraction . |
| 27 | Although Walton J. referred on two occasions to the plaintiff being under a mistaken belief that they were bound to pay the duties it is clear from his findings that in relation to at least the last three payments they were in considerable doubt as to their liability and he said , at p. 745 : |
| 28 | ‘ Ah , ’ he greeted Maxim ; ‘ do I see you refreshed by two days of country air ? |
| 29 | Probes were labelled according to ref. 27 : inserts from KOX cDNAs ( 9 ) were excised and purified by two rounds of agarose gel electrophoresis before labelling . |
| 30 | The belt was ( had been ) three inches wide and made of two strips of cowhide sewn together along their edges . |