Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | He pushed Gustafsson to five sets — and led two sets to one at the traditional break — before finally succumbing in another classic . |
| 7 | Then I saw a barrel glinting and realized two soldiers were creeping towards me . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I cut my filter matting into ¼″ strips and made two spawning mops which seem to work very well . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have known one idiot ( nameless ) who did not heed this simple advice and made two visits to a water garden centre in ten minutes , earning the unfair accolade of ‘ groupie ’ . |
| 12 | She was appointed to the Foreign Office 's advisory committee on the Boxer indemnity fund in 1925 and made two visits to China ( 1926 and 1930–1 ) . |
| 13 | He traversed the deserts of Persia and Baluchistan by camel , crossed central Africa at its widest point ( Across Wildest Africa , 1907 ) , and explored the Matto Grosso of Brazil ( Across Unknown South America , 1913 ) where his men mutinied and made two attempts on his life . |
| 14 | And made two partings down the duckweed , |
| 15 | In the past year , it has increased the number of patients by 10 per cent. , the number of doctors and nurses by more than 50 and reopened two wards . |
| 16 | Yesterday Bexton , 24 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted two offences of theft and one offence of obtaining by deception . |
| 17 | Yesterday Siddle , of Lynmouth Close , Hemlington , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted two offences of handling stolen goods . |
| 18 | Yesterday James , 22 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted two offences of burglary and taking a car without consent . |
| 19 | He was found guilty of murder and attempted murder and admitted two robberies and one attempted robbery . |
| 20 | When I knocked and entered , Ira , with a broad smile on his face , reached down and produced two glasses and a bottle of Okanagan wine which we were soon sipping . |
| 21 | His brisk examination completed , he strapped up Luce 's injured right ankle and produced two capsules , a bottle of tablets , and a tube of ointment . |
| 22 | A third followed after two more days , when Sergeant Joe visited Mr Singleton in his shop in Charing Cross Road and produced two letters ostensibly written by the Duke of Wellington on the eve of Waterloo . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They started by brainstorming sights and sounds , and produced two lists , shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 25 | This party was formed by Brian Faulkner after the fall of the Executive in May 1974 and fought two seats in the UK elections of October . |
| 26 | I duly knitted two backs , marked the shape of the front neck and also a slight ‘ dip ’ on the back section and stitched two lines with the sewing machine using a long stitch . |
| 27 | It was on a programme the other night saying the advice bureau are on the er companies cos some bloke , they were employing him to do something and he sued them and got two grand out of them . |
| 28 | Yeah cos what , what they said like , their own , cos they run out of wine at the bar and er , they went in the supermarket and got two bottles of wine and kept them on the table you see |
| 29 | The Royal Commission on Local Government , under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud , was appointed in 1967 and reported two years later . |
| 30 | Fingers across the map to retrace their journey — from the New Inn they went to the English chapel , walked to the shore , saw the Marischal College , were welcomed at the Town House , viewed Old Aberdeen , looked at the Old College , visited the King 's College where Sir Alexander Gordon was professor of Medicine , and visited two bookshops . |