Example sentences of "[vb past] two things " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean . |
| 2 | And in the end she found two things . |
| 3 | We opened the cloth and found two things — a book and a paper . |
| 4 | This work demonstrated two things . |
| 5 | We believe in each case there actually occurred two things , the cause and the effect . |
| 6 | My medical eye noticed two things immediately : there were virtually no flies near the children playing on the beach ; and the dog lying down was no scrawny , starving mongrel . |
| 7 | In this sense , the description of themselves as ‘ ordinary ’ was an identity which simultaneously expressed two things : it indicated their own class position , between the extraordinary highly placed and the extraordinarily lowly placed , and at the same time , by its yearning to transcend class identity , it expressed the tensions of that position . |
| 8 | But he knew that for his expansion plans to work he needed two things : further capital investment , and a designer of genius . |
| 9 | And in that instant she understood two things . |
| 10 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
| 11 | To the miner , it meant two things : a rarity discovered and bread for his table . |
| 12 | The tide was coming in and , as he rounded the rocks which screened the Cove , he saw two things : a courting couple doing what he felt to be far more than courting and then something a little further away which made his heart miss a beat . |
| 13 | Round the next bend , Harry saw two things simultaneously : give-way lines at the foot of the hill , where the lane joined another road , and a scene with which he was already familiar — the subject of the seventh photograph . |
| 14 | On Wednesday morning I did two things . |
| 15 | We did two things to offset this : first of course we reduced the book fund [ the money for purchase of new books ] . |
| 16 | In observing the " contrast " between " the living reality " and " the paper description " of the British constitution ( in observing the gap between practice and theory ) Bagehot did two things of significance . |
| 17 | At the last council meeting we did two things or two things have happened . |
| 18 | And he had a list which I 've , I 've got there and er I think he got two things suggested that were on his list from the group of people who were supposed to be aware and er about twenty things which he thought maybe they should have thought about , and had n't . |
| 19 | I only got two things , there then |
| 20 | From this type of starting-point the SDPP expected two things to flow , namely the capturing of a long-term vision within which short-term goals were to be set and , second , a relief in teacher stress . |
| 21 | Marx and Engels therefore asked two things of anthropology . |
| 22 | ‘ You said two things . |