Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This is done by referring to two pieces of research commissioned by the CNAA Development Services Unit and a number of works on student learning .
2 Le Moignan has talked about retiring in two years ' time , but that could be hastened if there were another loss to Opie , who has made a determined comeback after defeats in the world and British opens .
3 Viccei , who had boasted of escaping within two years , was wearing a T-shirt with the message : ‘ I love Knightsbridge ’ .
4 He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years .
5 Mulraney was also disqualified from driving for two years .
6 According to Simmons , consenting differs from promising in two ways :
7 Promising differs from consenting in two respects .
8 The only disappointment was that , at nine o'clock , the advantage gained by climbing for two days was lost in minutes , like the slow , laborious winding of a stiff spring which snaps and releases its energy in an instant .
9 What opportunities exist for socialising with two cultures ?
10 Lozanov attacks the problem of " anti-suggestive " barriers , which may interfere with learning in two directions and on two planes .
11 One yearned for Richards to make the romantics smile by sending in two bowlers to polish them off , reflecting that when Percy Chapman did it with fifteen needed against Australia in 1928–9 ( and lost two wickets ! ) ,
12 Sitting in Manchester , the judge said after listening to two hours of legal argument from counsel for Blandford , his wife and the Official Solicitor , that he now had no power to rectify his error made on May 17 when he ordered the Marquess to be jailed if he failed to pay the money in two weeks .
13 A FRENCH trucker was banned from driving for two years yesterday after after he was caught nearly four times over the drink drive limit .
14 And yesterday he was banned from driving for two years and fined £900 .
15 I once defended a juvenile on a charge of reckless driving , and he was banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of the most horrific driving at night without lights .
16 Neil Ashurst , 24 , of Sycamore Drive , Brotton , was fined £630 and was banned from driving for two years by Whitby magistrates yesterday after he admitted driving while drunk , without L-plates and insurance and also while not being supervised .
17 Stevenson , 20 , of Grendon Walk , Park End , Middlesbrough , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for a total of 21 months and banned from driving for two years .
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