Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know what happened : Enya was very quickly to attract the attention of David Puttman and had two successful soundtrack recordings for the BBC , ‘ The Frog Prince ’ and ‘ The Celts ’ . |
| 2 | As we were hearing from Rupert just now , you know , you start if you travel to the States and spend two or three weeks wandering around there , you get an impression of the travel industry as a consumer , and you come back and go to a hotel here and you find that it seems a bit more expensive , or perhaps the meals are n't quite so good , or , as Rupert pointed out , the service is n't quite so good . |
| 3 | He fed mints to dray horses , said hello to a caged European eagle owl called Gonzo and let two barn owls fly on and off his arm as a smiling crowd clapped and asked for autographs . |
| 4 | I used to shop in Shaftesbury Avenue and buy two or three nightdresses at a time . |
| 5 | The dam itself — 45 miles west of Exeter and completed two months ago — is 430 metres across and 40 metres high . |
| 6 | With him she rode across the Rockies and made two expeditions , in the Far East and Africa , on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society , to study tribal languages . |
| 7 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 8 | I plan to buy a Discovery 200 TDi and have two questions , Firstly , tyres . |
| 9 | Melanie emerged on the professional scene as Joanna Carlin and had two solo LPs to her credit before joining the Hank Wangford band in 1980 . |
| 10 | He qualified with Whinney Murray and spent two years with Peat Marwick in Sydney , where he developed a vague ambition to work with growing companies . |
| 11 | In stark contrast to the attitude of the Scribes and Pharisees , Jesus pointed to a poor widow who had just come into the Temple and placed two small coins into the offertory box . |
| 12 | I then left Hamptons and spent two months at the Berlitz School of Language in London . ’ |
| 13 | You also run a big Chrysler and have two addresses , one here in Mexico City , the other in Cuernavaca . |
| 14 | He now lives in Prague and has two children . |
| 15 | So I went to Ladbrokes and picked two rank outsiders and put some money on them and left . |
| 16 | He lectured extensively in the United States and Canada and published two more landmark books , ‘ Orange and Green ’ and ‘ Northern Ireland : A Problem for Every Solution ’ . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1989 , as a Standard Liege player , Rosenthal put pen to paper on a deal with Udinese and spent two weeks there . |
| 18 | She was mated to Ajax and produced two litters , the first one , in 1938 , contained five dogs , four of which apparently went to India and Pakistan , for reasons which seem to be obscure . |
| 19 | He has worked nearly all his life for the Woodbridge firm of Notcutts and spent two years as a student at the world-famous Wisley garden centre , where he was guided by former Notcutts managing director Frank Knight . |
| 20 | While in Cumbria , he had obtained leave from Earl Leofric to ride south through Mercia and spend two days in the quiet of Oswestry with Thorfinn 's periglour Sulien , who had travelled from Llanbadarn to meet him . |
| 21 | Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 22 | They are centred around a flower festival at St John 's from today until Sunday and include two organ recitals by Dr Donald Davison and an exhibition on the history of Malone parish , which will be presented by parishioner Dr Paul Larmour , the writer Take it from me , nobody knows more about the past of that part of Belfast than Paul . |
| 23 | The jury has heard Magee got out , walked up to Special Constable Goodman and fired two shots into his chest . |
| 24 | In a four hour talk , the Doctor faced afresh his calling from God and took two vital decisions in the light of that . |
| 25 | The new Lady Waterlane , having drunk three-quarters of a bottle of Bollinger and achieved two and a half orgasms , was well content . |
| 26 | The school is an all girls , comprehensive school in Newcastle Upon Tyne and has two libraries on the upper and lower sites of the school . |
| 27 | To secure his rear Scapula used the device of founding a colonia of retired veterans at Camulodunon and giving two British rulers the responsibility of maintaining the peace in their areas . |
| 28 | He consumed a bottle of Frascati and smoked two cigarettes , then turned green , almost passed out , and fell asleep sitting up in the chair . |
| 29 | Ottaway , who is stationed at Catterick and has two children , even wrote his first eight-hour assignment for his last course in the cargo hold of the Hercules as they flew out to the Gulf battle zone last year . |
| 30 | The final total was 606 , scored in only ten hours of excellent batsmanship , although it was widely felt that the England selectors had helped them along by omitting Foster and playing two spinners , Cook and Miller , on a pitch of low bounce . |