Example sentences of "[vb pp] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A jeep stopped just outside Brigade H.Q The two stretchers it carried contained two bodies , each wrapped tightly in an Army blanket . |
| 2 | Some people were still trapped two hours later . |
| 3 | The trip was only organised two weeks ago and is now seen as a clear case of retaliation against the prince . |
| 4 | the coach to the breeders ' evening that 's what I mentioned before , we paid for the refreshments and the rent show secretary has only claimed two pounds which is a scandal really she 's probably paid twenty out , twenty pounds |
| 5 | Already the inferno has claimed two lives and gutted several homes . |
| 6 | Essex were , for a time , in some trouble after Munton had claimed two wickets in as many balls but Gooch , still snuffling after his touch of ‘ flu and coming in at an unaccustomed No 5 position , thwarted the hat-trick ball . |
| 7 | Well you see then er say a man owned two stallions here , and he 'd two grooms travelling . |
| 8 | The route had been reopened two weeks previously following an attack in January when two people were killed . |
| 9 | Neath then won a ruck in Bridgend 's 22 and after Laity had committed two defenders , Barclay had a clear overlap to the corner . |
| 10 | On this point it seems that the Literary Digest Poll and others committed two errors . |
| 11 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 12 | The singer , best known for the classic Great Balls Of Fire , was expected two days ago but was said to be furious at taking second billing in the Giants of Rock 'n' Roll concerts . |
| 13 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 14 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 15 | William D. Wixom , Chairman of the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters , has added two persons to the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's curatorial staff . |
| 16 | To all the above problems must be added two others : corrosion and damp . |
| 17 | Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them . |
| 18 | Ace , on the other hand , still had the Browning and the knife , but had added two packs of C-4 Plus to her pockets . |
| 19 | Ernest was torn two ways . |
| 20 | I believe , however , that Schröder has amalgamated two issues — screening and treatment of early prostatic cancer — into one when they should be argued separately . |
| 21 | Press Construction wins £2.3m order PRESS Construction of Darlington has won two contracts worth a total of £2.3m that will consolidate work at the Haughton Road business for its 500-strong workforce . |
| 22 | He 's 25 , has already won two championships and is a winner . |
| 23 | If there is money to spend , they should give it to the man who has won two championships at Everton . |
| 24 | After Dot had won two rounds , Mrs Hollidaye said , ‘ We 'll have supper early this evening . |
| 25 | Europeans had now won two majors in ‘ 88 and Faldo had nearly won the US Open in between . |
| 26 | NO British runner has won two golds in one Olympics . |
| 27 | So far she has won two classics , the St Leger ( twice ) and the Oaks . |
| 28 | Short Brothers has won two orders worth £40 million for its Javelin close-air defence weapon system from the Ministry of Defence and an unnamed country . |
| 29 | Short Brothers has won two orders worth £40 million for its Javelin close-air defence weapon system from the Ministry of Defence and an unnamed country . |
| 30 | This year he had begun brilliantly on the Safari circuit in Africa , had won two tournaments and headed their Order of Merit . |