Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [vb pp] two [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On Dec. 12 a Swedish company , Brown Boveri , admitted that it had sold two presses used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons , to Iraq . |
2 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
3 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
4 | Look it 's got two legs and it 's got two plaits the same as me . |
5 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
6 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
7 | The only difference is he 's had a few thousand extra because it 's got two kitchens and two bathrooms . |