Example sentences of "two [noun pl] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although ‘ Milton and Wordsworth exalted me ’ , he eventually buys a complete Byron for two shillings and reads Childe Harold . |
| 2 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 3 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 4 | ‘ Many are mostly torn apart growing up with two cultures and trying to reconcile themselves to both . ’ |
| 5 | Blanch these in boiling water for two minutes and drain well . |
| 6 | ‘ To see a hundred men in a circle reduced to sobs in two minutes and hear the woods echoing with the sound was extraordinary . ’ |
| 7 | The boss nurse gave her two minutes and told her not to talk . |
| 8 | He had helped the actor on one or two cases and found an enthusiasm for investigation which he could never muster for his extremely lucrative solicitor 's practice . |
| 9 | We demand that it changes , we beg of it to alter our lives , we leave it for two hours and assume it will be different when we get back . |
| 10 | When he heard a breakfast-time radio report that the Government thought the Olympics should return to Britain , he recruited an eminent bid committee within two hours and had the news splashed in that day 's first edition of the Manchester Evening News . |
| 11 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 12 | Every morning and afternoon , a patient aide — who has had some nursing training — visits for two hours and helps her bathe , carry out exercises and walk . |
| 13 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |
| 14 | Railway : The train to Salzburg takes an hour and a half and costs approx AS 270 ; alternatively Innsbruck takes two hours and costs approx AS 370 . |
| 15 | The first treatment lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours and costs £25 to £30 ; the follow-up sessions will be around an hour-an-a-half and slightly less expensive . |
| 16 | The jury withdrew for two hours and returned with a majority verdict of ‘ not guilty ’ . |
| 17 | Staff meetings take place once a week for one to two hours and rotate between Tuesdays and Thursdays to ensure maximum attendance by part-time staff . |
| 18 | The trouble with Quassia ( Letters , November 7 ) is that the extract is unstable , so you need to boil the dry chips for two hours and strain off the liquid each time you need to use it . |
| 19 | And we 'd shut them out shunt them out and then we 'd collect the two coaches and take them over to the main yard , and put them under a cleaning platform you see for the cleaners . |
| 20 | Timothy Spain , defending , said Dakers had gone to Australia with his wife and two sons and had got a job there . |
| 21 | Mr Anderson , married with two sons and based at Surbiton , has denied raping the woman after agreeing to take her home from a discotheque last March . |
| 22 | He wants to restore it to its original castellated glory to provide a home for wife Annie and two sons and realise a 15-year dream . |
| 23 | He circled her in a 20 metre circle , changed the rein through two half-circles and repeated the performance on the left rein . |
| 24 | ‘ Our officers separated the two groups and kept a close eye on what was going on , ’ said the spokesman . |
| 25 | If men from different lineages in the same section were in dispute , their lineage shaikhs would meet as representatives of the two groups and try to bring the affair to a conclusion ; they could , if necessary , collect compensation from their members and receive it on their behalf . |
| 26 | If your list of suspect foods is very extensive , it may be better to split them into two groups and try eliminating each group in turn . |
| 27 | The young men split the cattle into two groups and head off to find pasture . |
| 28 | erm equally if you ca n't get any significant differences between the five different groups of five people you can try and split the stuff up , once you 've got the data you can try and split it up in other ways , divide them into two groups and see |
| 29 | Total serum carnitine concentration was significantly lower in the patients with coeliac disease compared with the other two groups and to reference values . |
| 30 | The two will develop and qualify a general-purpose 0.35-micron CMOS technology by the end of 1994 for volume production the following year , which will involve shrinking the smallest feature sizes on logic chips by more than two times and increase the layers of metal interconnect , increasing the number of transistors that can be integrated on logic devices by a factor of 10 compared with products such as current-generation Am386 devices and Hewlett-Packard 's 99MHz Precision Architecture RISC — the Am386 devices are manufactured in 0.8-micron technology . |