Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting .
2 He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone .
3 Lepine makes his way down to the ground-floor cafeteria where the nursing student Barbara Maria Kleuznick is standing by the cash and service area , and he kills her with two shots .
4 He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit .
5 It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington .
6 He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move .
7 He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards .
8 He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it .
9 Like all Scots he seemed to her intelligent and well-bred , but uniquely devoted after he saved her from two carriage accidents and two assailants .
10 He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th .
11 He spotted it with two teenagers inside while meeting children from a school outing .
12 Judge Anthony Hart described 28-year-old George Scott , who denied punching and kicking the male and female officers , as an ‘ arrogant thug ’ as he sentenced him to two years in prison .
13 He downed it in two throatfuls , and Theresa instantly replenished it .
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