Example sentences of "[vb past] two [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a trade dispute in 1960 , a police officer found two pickets standing at the front entrance of a factory , four standing at the back entrance and ten or twelve outside the back entrance . |
| 2 | They found two men lying on the floor both with severe injuries . |
| 3 | When they reached it , they spied two men standing at the ready as they had expected : the passage through the palisade over the water was always manned by a guard or two . |
| 4 | He similarly composed two leitmotifs to run through The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 5 | Six demonstrators spent two hours chained to the fence at the R-A-F Aston Down Airfield near Stroud . |
| 6 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 7 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 8 | As a result of that , the federal assembly spent two weeks squabbling over the issue . |
| 9 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |
| 10 | He had to grab the wheel twice I think he smashed two cars coming down the road . |
| 11 | The Individual Programme Plans of Elizabeth and Helen , which took two attempts to get off the ground because of staff changes and inadequate training , have been virtually suspended — even before the first reviews — because of the latest staffing upheaval . |
| 12 | The judge in the case had ordered an investigation into why social services took two years to call in the police.Kim Barnes reports |
| 13 | As he ran he saw two dots appear on the lip of the entrance . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw two holes appear in the windscreen in front of me and I felt pain in my chest . |
| 15 | The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook . |
| 16 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 17 | Of the Persil soap powder offers that enabled two passengers to travel for the fare of one and of the utter complexity of offers and restrictions that taxed the ingenuity of many booking clerks and ticket collectors until the Blue ( cheaper ) and White ( all Fridays and occasional other days ) Savers were standardised as BR 's on the whole highly successful marketing tool against coach competition . |
| 18 | Ministry officials blamed the crime wave on economic shortages , inter-ethnic tensions ( to which some officials attributed two bombs found on the Moscow metro on April 20 ) , drugs , and the movement by organized crime into the co-operative movement ; increasing unemployment was also blamed . |
| 19 | However , at the committee 's latest meeting he supported two amendments dealing with the status of church shops and newsagents . |
| 20 | Early one pre-Sale morning a stranger silently passed two sorters working in the vestibule , went for a few minutes into the Church , which happened at eh time to be empty of all nut noods , and then said to them as he walked out ‘ You 've made that Church live . ’ |
| 21 | Field Marshal had two quartets entered in the competition , and their ‘ B ’ set took second place on 64 . |
| 22 | In an explosive second half Bangor added a further two goals , the Down keeper saved a flick , Burgon hit the post and had two attempts taken off the line . |
| 23 | In the 52nd minute England had two chances to clear before the second-half substitute Qamar Ibrahim scored . |
| 24 | Boddington originally had two mills belonging to the Manor , although the ( Upper ) one had disappeared by the start of the 18th century . |
| 25 | ‘ In the meantime , my dad had arrived at the house and spotted two men hanging around the ditched vehicle . |