Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.

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1 A convalescent home was needed , so I got permission to use two houses which had been the homes of senior staff of the Bombay Burma Trading Company .
2 He began his planning in January but found practice curtailed two weeks ago by a heavy snowfall .
3 To argue with a Greek today is to experience the same mixture of exhilaration ( because he is so full of ideas , so quick with logic ) and exasperation ( when he slides around awkward facts ) that many a growlingly impressed Roman experienced two millennia ago .
4 This long-passed-by and relatively infrequently visited church has two historic treasures of National significance .
5 three six , he 'll say bearing two seven O , now if he says torpedo bearing two seven O , show me where the , show me where the torpe , that 's that 's the ship there , the S , where would the torpedo be coming from ?
6 The minimum suggested fall is 1:40 , however , if a very small fall such as this is used it is important to take great care to seal all side and end laps with Rockwell sealing strip using two strips per joint .
7 A dinghy sized catamaran has two thin hulls withe a sheet of canvas stretched inbetween for the crew to sit on .
8 At the centre of the defended enclosure lay two courtyard structures of uncertain function and a precinct housing several temple-like buildings .
9 The hybrid stepping motor has two phases which are excited by positive or negative currents .
10 His greatest memorial was the History of the School , but by the terms of his Will he also bequeathed money to endow two prizes , the Hulsean Divinity Prize and the Benjamin Varley Geography prize .
11 C E C position is therefore asking Congress to oppose two five five .
12 ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths .
13 Erm I was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if you 've got an aircraft which is er going to replace , as I understand it the Jaguar and the Phantom which has already been retired , er against which you 've been comparing the F three er and the G R four of the tornados and the harriers , then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these , in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty , might we order more for example ?
14 Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork .
15 He forged into a 6-5 lead in the fourth set but then saw King draw two shots close to the jack on the eighth end for a match lie .
16 He forged into a 6-5 lead in the fourth set but then saw King draw two shots close to the jack on the eighth end for a match lie .
17 Moira knew exactly what designs she needed in the shop and would tell Meirion to have two dozen of a particular style ready for delivery to the shop within two days at most .
18 I thought abutment had two t's affidavit .
19 The hardware to perform multiplication requires two n-bit registers to hold the multiplier and multiplicand , and a 2n-bit register to hold the product , since it may have up to ( 2n-1 ) significant bits .
20 T&A Thompson Cards operates throughout Ireland , and their cash and carry operation has two fully equipped walk-through vans making regular monthly country-wide journeys .
21 I 'm not going to have time to get two I 'll have a look through this before Erm you 've got the Lett 's it 's a good one this .
22 He said Labour had two manifestos one they published and another secret one to be produced if the party won .
23 The organisers had approval to sell two thousand tickets but some party goers believe there were more ravers than that .
24 DANCE ENERGY BEGAN two years ago — bright , optimistic , and fundamentally flawed .
25 Oxford United have transfer listed two of their goalkeepers …
26 The Hong Kong government is planning legislation to prevent two species of snake from being eaten as a winter delicacy .
27 Lead piping has two main disadvantages : it is often very small bore , so does not allow a good waterflow , and the amateur will find it difficult to extend the system .
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