Example sentences of "[vb past] two [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then Ted and I went out a little bit later and we sa , we found two goldfish and two golden |
| 2 | The police were then called to the house and found two people tied up in a back bedroom . |
| 3 | I phoned two people who are particularly close and could n't speak for tears . |
| 4 | The Girls were highly embarrassed though when John transported two Pekinese dogs as a gift for Mary . |
| 5 | Like all sheep farmers , Peter Capener in Staffordshire faced this situation … until he installed two 3W infra-red heaters . |
| 6 | Each interviewed two people . |
| 7 | Having received misleading reports that Looking Glass was planning mischief , Howard had , on 29th June , dispatched two cavalry companies under Captain Whipple to arrest the chief . |
| 8 | It was a picture , rather than a story , and showed two people at a race-course . |
| 9 | ‘ I paid two quid for those certificates , ’ Woolley said . |
| 10 | Yarnell decided to prove his point so he detached two aircraft carriers , the Saratoga and Lexington and a few destroyers from his battle fleet and set sail for Oahu in poor weather conditions , radio silence and no lights . |
| 11 | Sony Tektronix Inc , the 50–50 joint venture between Sony Corp and the Beaverton , Oregon company , displayed two series of X-terminals : two models in the XP11 series , the 19 inch XP12 mod el , and the 17″ XP18 256-colour X-terminal , both low-end , low-price displays aimed at business applications ; and four models in the XP330 series , based on an R3000 RISC chip , designed as an X11.4 server in technical applications . |
| 12 | were arrested on 17 July in connection with a parcel bomb which exploded in the Syriam state oil refinery 10 days earlier and killed two people . |
| 13 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
| 14 | THE IRA bomb that killed two people in the City of London on Friday night was intended to drive the general election result off the front pages and put the Northern Ireland issue firmly back on the national political agenda . |
| 15 | I know that you killed two people . |
| 16 | A 200-kg. car bomb-attack on Nov. 18 killed two people and wounded 10 in the Miraflores district , scene of a major bomb explosion in July [ see p. 39002 ] . |
| 17 | Did you are you trying to tell me you spent two quid last night ? |
| 18 | He edited two series of periodicals directed towards Scottish Episcopalians , wrote a number of works on liturgical theology , contributed articles to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1874–5 ) , and produced editions of several medieval missals . |
| 19 | A pensioner who pulled two people from a burning car has received an award for heroism . |
| 20 | The deceased amphibians included two species of the unique gastric brooding frog , Rheobatrachus silus and R. vitellinus . |
| 21 | Some of the others protested at being separated from their belongings , but a Brazilian Corporal in the corner hit two people in the stomach and things moved fast after that . |
| 22 | When the TV star subsequently referred to him in interviews as ‘ an extortionist ’ and ‘ a tennis show pimp ’ , the angry Edwards brought two $10 million suits against Hall for defamation suits which were thrown out of court this March . |
| 23 | Sink It took two people 90 minutes to wash up , dry , clean sink and draining board and put the dishes away . |
| 24 | There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House . |
| 25 | It took two people quite a time to take the big sheets down one by one , flap and fold them , holding the corners tight . |
| 26 | Mr Hannis said he took two people in for ten weeks . |
| 27 | As he went out of the shelter , he saw two people with a barrow , a man and a woman , he says . |
| 28 | He looked up and he saw two people walking or appearing to walk away from him down the white road of the tunnel and out across the green hills . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ began Enfield , ‘ I was coming home about three o'clock on a black winter morning , when suddenly I saw two people . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw two people hurt on the bridge about 500 metres from where the bomb went off . |