Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've got rid of a doorway , or turned two rooms into one , round it off with an arch kit which you plaster over ; add stylish fibrous plaster arch mouldings and corbels ; or frame it in wood . |
| 2 | The arguments about whether to join the European Community were won or lost two decades ago . |
| 3 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 4 | Instead , the writer should have simply combined these into a single sentence without " It " , or kept two sentences but replaced " It " with " This text " . |
| 5 | Sharpe now anticipated another battle ; one for a crossroads that linked two armies . |
| 6 | ‘ So long as he ( McCoist ) scores one more than he got in Bruges , I 'll be happy , ’ remarked the manager of the goal machine that stalled two weeks ago . |
| 7 | Well that happened two years ago did n't it ? |
| 8 | He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years . |
| 9 | The Hereford factory was destroyed four weeks ago in a fire that killed two firemen . |
| 10 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
| 11 | THE IRA bomb that killed two people in the City of London on Friday night was intended to drive the general election result off the front pages and put the Northern Ireland issue firmly back on the national political agenda . |
| 12 | In the chase that followed two police cars were shot at , and the prosecution says Inspector Paul Kirby was nearly killed when a shotghun blast smashed his winscreen . |
| 13 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |
| 14 | And that included two tours as well . |
| 15 | On the eastern side of the central gang-way was an overhead crane that spanned two sets of tracks , used for loading and unloading vehicles from rail wagons . |
| 16 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |
| 17 | The sequence of violence that crossed two police force areas began when Mr Anderson and his new fiancee Jackie Fisher , 22 , were confronted by a gunman in their parked car near Crosswood reservoir , on the Edinburgh to Lanark road . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Just taking pictures ’ was supported by a philosophical edifice that took two bottles of beer to explain and provided lots of opportunity for amused , patronising glances . |
| 20 | There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House . |
| 21 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 22 | As others produce a packet of Hob Nobs from a plastic carrier bag , she is revealing a foil-covered dish containing lobster marinated in apricot juice that took two days to prepare . |
| 23 | He hit a single that brought two runners home , and San Francisco held on to win 3-2 and take the National League title 4-1 . |
| 24 | US Marines from the American Sixth Fleet landed at Beirut on 16th July ; and next day the British 16th Parachute Brigade was flown into Amman , but not without difficulties that highlighted two weaknesses in the air mobility assumptions of the Sandys doctrine . |
| 25 | Whilst there Norman had his twenty-first birthday , a fact he announced to a girl he met in a café and who took him off around Antwerp in celebration , on a journey of discovery that lasted two days . |
| 26 | As the parade vanished , his confidence went with it , leaving a flatfooted , overweight colonel with poor eyesight and a build that suggested two sets of underwear . |
| 27 | She bought a toilet seat to fit inside the big one and planned two visits each day to the toilet after meals or when Susan indicated that she wanted to pass a motion . |
| 28 | He pushed Gustafsson to five sets — and led two sets to one at the traditional break — before finally succumbing in another classic . |
| 29 | Then I saw a barrel glinting and realized two soldiers were creeping towards me . |
| 30 | Back in the kitchen , he stirred rice into the onion , added water and a stock cube and emptied two cans of black-eyed beans into a frying pan , with a half spoonful of chilli , black pepper and garlic purée . |