Example sentences of "two [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the result was announced , two deputies representing Taiwan stood up and shouted out their opposition to the £6 billion hydro-electric and flood control scheme , before storming out . |
| 2 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 3 | This process of dealing with her impressions was dovetailed into her everyday tasks without the two activities interfering with each other . |
| 4 | Lenihan , one of the outstanding line-out players in the Five Nations during the 80s , was a member of two Lions touring parties without making a Test appearance . |
| 5 | Delighted Bangor principal Professor Eric Sunderland said the money would be used for two projects involving quality and collaborative research initiatives . |
| 6 | Well there 's two projects running side by side . |
| 7 | The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities . |
| 8 | Two birds swooping through the air at tremendous speed caught our eye , and we watched spellbound as a pair of long-tailed skuas gave a tremendous display of aerobatics before settling on the tundra not far away . |
| 9 | As they went on with their work they gossiped happily , like two birds twittering to one another from different branches of a tree . |
| 10 | Abutting has two t's abutting . |
| 11 | And now , two researchers working in Costa Rica have uncovered an even more outlandish example , involving fry rather than eggs . |
| 12 | The tradition , as related by Butcher , is that in 1209 ( the date popularly associated with the introduction of bull-baiting into England ) , William de Warrenne , Lord of Stamford , on looking out from his castle walls , saw two bulls fighting for a cow in the castle meadows . |
| 13 | These works produced only two Scottish replies arguing against the English case , The Complaynt of Scotland , and the recently discovered Ane Resonying of ane Scottis and Inglis merchand betuix Rawand ( Rouen ) and Lionis ( Lyons ) by the royal councillor and administrator William Lamb , an imagined discourse between two merchants travelling in France , in which the Scottish merchant utterly refuted , point by point , the claims of Henry VIII set out in his 1542 Declaration . |
| 14 | So , I am going to spend another two minutes telling you why I have always loved trains and railways . |
| 15 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 16 | Paula spent two minutes putting on her face first thing . |
| 17 | In two cases involving admirable heroines and dubious companions it is hard to separate the two categories . |
| 18 | said in two cases dealing with very different subject matters . |
| 19 | A voluntary aided Roman Catholic comprehensive girls ' school adopted an admission policy in which the categories for admission were , in order of priority , baptised Roman Catholics , children of baptised Roman Catholics , practising Christians and other Christians , in the latter two cases giving priority to those with sisters at the school . |
| 20 | I personally , in all the cases I 've dealt with , which is seven and a half years , have only ever really gone to magistrates court but I 've got two cases going to crown court soon , but it 's exceptionally hard and to answer your question , I actually have never fou never got anyone to go to prison yet . |
| 21 | But as the results of the inquiry were being made public , Mr Clinton spent two hours holding ‘ terrific ’ talks with the president . |
| 22 | Mr Falah , who is president of an association of Libyan Jews that includes two Israeli members of parliament , recently spent two hours mulling over old times with Colonel Qaddafi , and emerged with a promise of compensation for Jewish property sequestrated by the Libyan regime . |
| 23 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 24 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 25 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 26 | He sounded so convincing that Christina was reassured , and spent the next two hours sorting through hundreds of fabric samples , eventually choosing two co-ordinating Caribbean prints — a bold poinsettia pattern and a smaller toning design featuring hibiscus and humming-birds . |
| 27 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 28 | Games are played at a rate of 40 moves each in two hours thinking time followed by 20 moves in subsequent hours . |
| 29 | Cos they do n't want the time , they do n't want two hours dragging about on their legs . |
| 30 | County workers travelled in less technological gritters , snow ploughs and snow buckets and spent two hours dragging the expensive machine back on to the road . |