Example sentences of "and [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bought a toilet seat to fit inside the big one and planned two visits each day to the toilet after meals or when Susan indicated that she wanted to pass a motion . |
| 2 | These three rows , selecting the needles and knitting two rows between have created a sloping repeat motif across the row . |
| 3 | He pushed Gustafsson to five sets — and led two sets to one at the traditional break — before finally succumbing in another classic . |
| 4 | Grenfell was with triple murderer Nicholas Vernage when he stabbed Police Sergeant Alan King and attacked two other officers . |
| 5 | In stark contrast to the attitude of the Scribes and Pharisees , Jesus pointed to a poor widow who had just come into the Temple and placed two small coins into the offertory box . |
| 6 | Then I saw a barrel glinting and realized two soldiers were creeping towards me . |
| 7 | Holyfield starts training next month , but right now is watching the Olympics and doing nothing more testing than shadow boxing and jogging two miles a day around the Crystal Harmony , the Coca-Cola company 's flagship in Barcelona harbour . |
| 8 | Head a sheet of paper with the date and time of your meeting and make two columns , one for your essential objectives , the other of additional aims , which are desirable but not actually essential . |
| 9 | He set up a pile of cushions on the sofa and propped two telephone directories against them . |
| 10 | These boats are to have a deck , and to carry two pieces of cannon each , and to use either sails or oars , as occasion may require . |
| 11 | The ordinary or continual Council of the fifteenth century was quite small , had a fairly fixed membership , and met two or three times a week , sometimes with the King , sometimes without him . |
| 12 | They ate the sandwiches they 'd made before they 'd left the house , and then lay in their shelter and read two paper-backed books they 'd brought with them . |
| 13 | Back in the kitchen , he stirred rice into the onion , added water and a stock cube and emptied two cans of black-eyed beans into a frying pan , with a half spoonful of chilli , black pepper and garlic purée . |
| 14 | These researchers suggest that IRF-1 itself could be the target gene in 5q deletions and cite two further observations as indirect support for this concept . |
| 15 | Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside . |
| 16 | It 's more comfortable to carry a full can in each hand and using two will save you a lot of time and effort . |
| 17 | Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net . |
| 18 | The best idea they had was to travel back to the Wars of the Roses and bring two armoured knights with them into the age of the Krooms . |
| 19 | It has an apps launcher and a file viewer , can compress , decompress and recover files , and display two different directory lists on a split screen for comparison . |
| 20 | This year the Library has used its first grant from the Barbara and James Craig Fund to provide additional books for graduate students , and to support two subjects in particular need : Law and Politics . |
| 21 | With him she rode across the Rockies and made two expeditions , in the Far East and Africa , on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society , to study tribal languages . |
| 22 | Both teams included their second goalkeepers and made two other changes from the first Test . |
| 23 | He leapt down to the floor and made two gigantic walls of books , trapping Mr Fractor between them . |
| 24 | I cut my filter matting into ¼″ strips and made two spawning mops which seem to work very well . |
| 25 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 26 | Elaine went into the kitchen and made two Irish coffees . |
| 27 | I have known one idiot ( nameless ) who did not heed this simple advice and made two visits to a water garden centre in ten minutes , earning the unfair accolade of ‘ groupie ’ . |
| 28 | The justices declined to make the interim care order and made two prohibited steps orders under section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 without giving the parties an opportunity to make representations as to whether such orders were appropriate . |
| 29 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
| 30 | He traversed the deserts of Persia and Baluchistan by camel , crossed central Africa at its widest point ( Across Wildest Africa , 1907 ) , and explored the Matto Grosso of Brazil ( Across Unknown South America , 1913 ) where his men mutinied and made two attempts on his life . |