Example sentences of "he [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the top of the hill he made two bad jumping errors but these made little difference to his progress , and with Fifty Dollars More falling at the final open ditch only Combs Ditch looked to have any chance of getting in the way of a Dickinson clean sweep . |
| 2 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 3 | On 27 and 31 July he made two final appeals to Leopold , who had responded curtly to his son 's enthusiastic descriptions of his recent musical success ; and on 4 August the lovers were married at St Stephen 's Cathedral , with only Constanze 's mother , her younger sister , her guardian , and two other witnesses present . |
| 4 | Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite . |
| 5 | He made two calls to contacts who sold to a private collector in New York . |
| 6 | Sisley retained the British nationality inherited from his father throughout his life , although he made two unsuccessful attempts in 1888 and 1898 to become a naturalized French citizen . |
| 7 | Then in 1773–4 he made two designs for a bridge to cross the Severn in Stourport , Worcestershire , the first to be of timber with stone abutments and the second a single arch of brick but resting on a cast-iron centre . |
| 8 | He made two more soundings further along the bank and got the same result for both . |
| 9 | He made two journeys down the path to the wreckage of the car . |
| 10 | It is , however , certain that Molla Fenari was in Karaman at a date much later than Bayezid I 's reign , as will be shown ; and as there is no evidence to suggest a journey before 800/1397 or to support the possibility that he made two journeys to Karaman , it seems justifiable to treat the Taskopruzade story with some caution . |
| 11 | Martin Parr was not a hasty man , but before he went to sleep he made two phone calls . |
| 12 | Despite unemployment and money worries , he made two donations of £250 and £100 to Christian Aid and sympathised with victims of Serbian cruelty in Bosnia . |
| 13 | He made two outstanding saves from Neil Duffy headers to ensure that Airdrie prevailed . |
| 14 | He lived two hundred metres higher up than Osterlind in a rambling house overlooking the sea , Les Collettes . |
| 15 | One can not really hold it against Newton , because he lived two hundred and fifty years before the observational discovery of the expansion of the universe . |
| 16 | The jongleur is left to watch over some souls , but is approached by St Peter , with whom he plays two different games of dice , gambling for the souls . |
| 17 | He succeeded two Roman popes and a long line of Italians . |
| 18 | And he chucked two hundred quid in ? |
| 19 | A year ago he was in Arizona showing the strain of preparing to face Tyson in Las Vegas ; yesterday he registered two more performances as the genie in Aladdin at The Dominion , Tottenham Court Road . |
| 20 | As he passed two small boys on the banking , he brushed against one of them and simply mumbled ‘ Sorry ’ . |
| 21 | He produced two numbers of Colliers Magazine which he handed to me . |
| 22 | He produced two large atlases of estate maps ; the Stowe Atlas of thirty-three manuscript maps on vellum , detailing estates owned by the Grenville family around Kilkhampton , and the Lanhydrock Atlas of four large volumes containing 258 manuscript maps on vellum , compiled between 1694 and 1699 , of properties scattered widely over the county belonging to the Robartes family . |
| 23 | In 1641 he produced two new works , Le nozze d'Enea con Lavinia ( also lost ) and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and the following year his final masterpiece L'incoronazione di Poppea . |
| 24 | We are debating everything else in advance of the general election but not Northern Ireland , so will he answer two questions ? |
| 25 | He sold two Rothkos and one superb Jackson Pollock to his friend Edouard de Chavigny , and after that he never looked back . |
| 26 | Old Mr Pascall saw no reason why he should make life easy for a gossiping female and made her hold on , while he sold two ballpoint pens and a packet of rubber bands . |
| 27 | From 1753 , when he sold two Sussex farms , until the death of his wife Elizabeth , daughter of Henry Thompson , of Kirby Hall , Yorkshire , in 1759 , his country home was in Charlton , moving to Lamorbey , at Bexley , when he married Esther Spencer ( died 1784 ) in March 1760 . |
| 28 | On the train from Chicago to New York before joining his last ship , he met two women off on a trip to the Big Apple for the shops and the shows , and a night out at Chippindales . |
| 29 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 30 | The police , having interviewed working colleagues of the victim at the London Docks , had elicited information to the effect that at the end of his shift he met two men outside the gates and said he was going for a drink with them . |