Example sentences of "[adv prt] on two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One mishap saw a German come down on two parachutes including his reserve . |
| 2 | Two of the Labour Party 's professorate homed in on two facets of the concept which seemed particularly appropriate for their party . |
| 3 | Walsh , chugging along on two cylinders for most of the match , suddenly sparked to life , making the ball cut both ways and always liable to produce one that scuttled through . |
| 4 | The attack began when incendiary bombs went off on two floors of a museum in Shrewsbury Castle , Shropshire — causing £250,000 damage and destroying many irreplaceable relics of three famous regiments . |
| 5 | He had a sleeping-bag , a torch propped up on two slabs of stone , and a couple of carrier bags . |
| 6 | Graham misses out on two finals Double heartbreak |
| 7 | Restoration work has been carried out on two towers in Surrey . |
| 8 | The book starts with a close look at our Royal Family and , not surprisingly , misses out on two separations and one remarriage . |
| 9 | POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS / ARE BEING CARRIED OUT ON TWO BODIES / FOUND YESTERDAY ON SKYE |
| 10 | but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar . |
| 11 | He leaned the chair back on two legs and put the sole of one shoe against the bedrails , then pulled on the rope of nylon until his biceps began to crack . |
| 12 | Finn , grinning , and Francie lit cigarettes and tilted their chairs back on two legs . |
| 13 | Yet it seems quite certain that our direct ancestors were walking around on two feet with an upright posture like our own at least four million years ago and no creature in the non-human line of descent seems ever to have done that . |
| 14 | Just because nobody actually wants to use a drug that hops around on two legs , croaking , it does n't mean that you ca n't get nicked for it . |
| 15 | Anyway when I approach a thirty mile an hour bend I usually go round at sixty thus going round on two wheels — halving the wear on the tyres . |