Example sentences of "[adv prt] on two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maitre Tajan will be bringing the gavel down on two attractive paintings from the Polo collection in this sale of Old Masters . |
| 2 | One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve . |
| 3 | By 11 a.m. the bombardment intensified to the point where Campana could count the shells raining down on two neighbouring companies at a rate of five a minute . |
| 4 | Two of the Labour Party 's professorate homed in on two facets of the concept which seemed particularly appropriate for their party . |
| 5 | Yeah , if you do n't measure it the right way , and go all the way round there and say that he 's coming in on two hundred and twenty five degrees |
| 6 | She asked everybody and she said will you come in on two to ten . |
| 7 | Walsh , chugging along on two cylinders for most of the match , suddenly sparked to life , making the ball cut both ways and always liable to produce one that scuttled through . |
| 8 | The attack began when incendiary bombs went off on two floors of a museum in Shrewsbury Castle , Shropshire — causing £250,000 damage and destroying many irreplaceable relics of three famous regiments . |
| 9 | He had a sleeping-bag , a torch propped up on two slabs of stone , and a couple of carrier bags . |
| 10 | The group missed out on two magazine front cover appearances because they refused to oblige photographers . |
| 11 | File selection and search practice are carried out on two emulated systems ( DIALOG and ORBIT ) . |
| 12 | Restoration work has been carried out on two towers in Surrey . |
| 13 | Julia , 25 , splashed out on two £1,500 pedal cars — a Mercedes and a Jaguar — at a toy store in Beverly Hills , Hollywood . |
| 14 | The book starts with a close look at our Royal Family and , not surprisingly , misses out on two separations and one remarriage . |
| 15 | And there had been seals , too , out on two offshore outcrops of stone , basking in the heat , barking sometimes at them . |
| 16 | Post-mortems carried out on two of the dead swans have proved inconclusive , but Mr O'Sullivan said he suspected the birds had fallen prey to the same disease which hit the colony before . |
| 17 | POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS / ARE BEING CARRIED OUT ON TWO BODIES / FOUND YESTERDAY ON SKYE |
| 18 | Graham misses out on two finals Double heartbreak |
| 19 | ‘ I just missed out on two other Olympic Games . |
| 20 | having failed out on two poly courses . |
| 21 | but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar . |
| 22 | He leaned the chair back on two legs and put the sole of one shoe against the bedrails , then pulled on the rope of nylon until his biceps began to crack . |
| 23 | Finn , grinning , and Francie lit cigarettes and tilted their chairs back on two legs . |
| 24 | Although the Serbian-dominated federal Yugoslav army claims to have entered Zvornik to restore order , a few soldiers lounging around on two immobile tanks were its only evident presence yesterday . |
| 25 | Just because nobody actually wants to use a drug that hops around on two legs , croaking , it does n't mean that you ca n't get nicked for it . |
| 26 | Yet it seems quite certain that our direct ancestors were walking around on two feet with an upright posture like our own at least four million years ago and no creature in the non-human line of descent seems ever to have done that . |
| 27 | Anyway when I approach a thirty mile an hour bend I usually go round at sixty thus going round on two wheels — halving the wear on the tyres . |