Example sentences of "it [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 2 | It crosses two mountain ranges , 561 rivers , 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe . |
| 3 | Not big at all , just comfortable , so that it sleeps two or three . |
| 4 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 5 | It is kept alone due to its aggressive behaviour — it attacked two large Pacus and a 1½″ long Arrowana and had to be swiftly moved . |
| 6 | It represents two inseparable qualities . |
| 7 | Industrial conglomerate BTR opened 3p stronger at 594p after it announced two joint ventures in China . |
| 8 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 9 | It involves two of the most intimate personal relationships , that of husband to wife , and of parent to child … |
| 10 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 11 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 12 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
| 13 | ‘ It sold two and a half thousand copies very quickly and Lime had to get more pressed . |
| 14 | At the time , the mill , which was powered by the Painswick Stream , was engaged in the cloth trade , as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 15 | By the early part of the 18th century , it housed two fulling mills and in 1709 was leased or sold by John Freame to Thomas Yates or Yeates . |
| 16 | Underwritten by the Economic Insurance Company , it offers two levels of cover — gold card or silver — and three hospital bands — ranging from most private hospitals in the UK , including London , at Band A , to NHS provincial teaching and general hospitals , and lower cost private hospitals , at Band C. |
| 17 | It offers two options , Tessa with a Plus and Tessa Plus Income . |
| 18 | If these problems can be overcome , it offers two advantages that chained overflow record handling does not . |
| 19 | It offers two schemes — one in which the benefits are guaranteed and another in which the benefits are notionally linked to an investment fund , and may , therefore , fluctuate . |
| 20 | At the undergraduate level it offers two ordinary half courses in European Community Law , and four honours courses available to LLB honours students . |
| 21 | More precisely , it fulfils two top-level functions : |
| 22 | It fulfils two top-level functions : |
| 23 | It involved two satyrs and a woman and was very obscene indeed . |
| 24 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 27 | It needs two teaspoons of salt to every 2½ gallons . |
| 28 | i , but it needs two of us , it needs somebody on the inside and somebody on the out just to stop them flying through it . |
| 29 | Above all , it highlights two aspects of the curriculum . |
| 30 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |