Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finality of the separation became clear two years later when their father and his girlfriend Alison made a suprise announcement one evening at McDonald 's . |
| 2 | A HUGE bomb explosion rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta late last night , bringing down two apartment blocks and killing at least 45 people . |
| 3 | A HUGE bomb rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta last night , bringing down two blocks of flats and killing at least 45 people , police said . |
| 4 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 5 | But she got only two steps . |
| 6 | Would he have attacked more children at school if he had destroyed only one tower and stabbed only two dolls ? |
| 7 | He had made official representations to many governments , but had received only two replies . |
| 8 | This represents only two cases in 1990–1 , and all costings were based on the assumption that tonsillectomies took place as inpatient procedures . |
| 9 | This was on the Monday before the show opened , and the garden had been completed only two hours earlier . |
| 10 | Indeed , on average , each pair of cod produces only two offspring of opposite sexes that survive to breed in the course of their lives , for if it were not so , the population of cod would grow and grow , which it clearly does not . |
| 11 | By the morning of the game the sports shops of Paris were locked , with staff supervising the doors , allowing only two people at a time into the shop . |
| 12 | On Nov. 17 , 1989 , the takeover of Messerschmidt-Bölkow-Blohm ( MBB ) , the country 's largest aerospace company , by Daimler-Benz , the motor industry group , was finalized , bringing together two companies with a joint turnover in 1988 of some DM80,000 million . |
| 13 | This theme of creativity — of synthesis through reconciliation of thesis and antithesis , of bringing together two sides of your nature — can also be seen in ‘ Christabel ’ . |
| 14 | Rhythm , the primary revelation of Indian music for Glass , preoccupied him to such an extent that one of his pieces at this time , Play , consisted of two lines for soprano saxophones. each instrument using only two notes . |
| 15 | Various card subjects were viewed under a fixed exposure for the A-measure and with a restricted version of the I-measure using only two exposures 12 and 16 . |
| 16 | A simple example using only two bands is used to illustrate the method . |
| 17 | With the years , it had seemed to get heavier , so that now she made only two excursions a week , mostly to the outskirts , making a point never to visit the same house more than twice a year . |
| 18 | But there is rich compensation in Barbara Jefford 's magnificent Volumnia : why has this superb actress been given only two roles by the RSC in 30 years ? |
| 19 | According to the Bronte sisters , Aylott and Jones , the publishers of their Poems ( 1846 ) , sold only two copies . |
| 20 | … that Charlotte Bronte turned to novel writing only after her Poems , written jointly with her two sisters , sold only two copies ? |
| 21 | The Dani of New Guinea have one of the poorest colour vocabularies in the world , in fact consisting only two terms , for ‘ bright ’ and ‘ dark ’ respectively . |
| 22 | Concern over whether the vessel could be made completely safe almost led to the board 's plans for a pressurised-water reactor being dropped altogether two years ago . |
| 23 | The Iranians would consider only two meeting places : one in the middle of some southern marshes , the other several miles behind Iraqi lines . |
| 24 | The best way of avoiding temptation is to make a habit , unless writing for an abnormally large orchestra , of employing only two percussion players , one for the kettledrums exclusively , and the other for the rest of the percussion . |
| 25 | send in two copies of your idea with any forms or leaflets you are introducing or changing . |
| 26 | I shall describe only two kinds , but they are representative ones . |
| 27 | Alec moved down two steps and stood . |
| 28 | So the new lines would each need only two workers , the increase in productivity paying for the new control system within a couple of years . |
| 29 | As he observed in the report , if the Allies could ‘ plan for a better peace even while waging war , they will win together two victories which in truth are indivisible ’ . |
| 30 | He had previously designed only two ballets , working with Ashton on The Quest and with de Valois on a revision of her ballet inspired by Blake 's drawings , Job . |