Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |
| 2 | As a trans-Pyrenean kingdom , Navarre lasted from its foundation in the ninth century until the sixteenth century , when it got broken in two , Spanish Navarre becoming Spanish in 1512 while French or Basse-Navarre was incorporated into the French crown in 1589 , when its current king became king of France as Henri IV . |
| 3 | The discipline became dominated by two new theoretical models : first a functionalist theory of synchronic adaptation , and later structuralism . |
| 4 | It is believed she became caught between two rival gangs when violence erupted in the packed pub . |
| 5 | In many cases the amount of section measured was considerably less than 500 ft ( 150 m ) with the average being 216 ft ( 63 m ) ; numbers of mean values used varied from two to six and in 27 cases only one value could be utilised . |
| 6 | The equipment they used consisted of two concentric tubes leading to a horizontal jet , and an arrangement of bevelled wheels for turning the lump of lime . |
| 7 | A small boy armed with a stick tried to beat off two hungry-looking dogs which sniffed suspiciously at the dead beggar 's bloody feet . |
| 8 | Trehub and Abramovitch ( 1978 ) showed that three- and four-year-olds exhibited a similar preference when simply asked to choose between two piles of different sizes : they preferred the larger one . |
| 9 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 10 | Maidstone prison contains one man who has already served 33 years and staff seemed torn between two beliefs ; one , that the risk he posed ( of further offences against children ) meant that further incarceration was inevitable , the other that his extraordinarily long period in custody meant he would be unable to survive outside the prison walls , anyway . |
| 11 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 12 | Or they might put her on a prison ship to Australia , as they 'd done with two girls from St Jude 's a couple of months ago , because — on those farms where the transported convicts worked all chained together — there was a shortage of women . |
| 13 | This came equipped with two ‘ resources ’ built into its ROMs that were supposed to manage the future font requirements ; FOND — the font family descriptor , and FONT — the ID number of the actual font . |
| 14 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 15 | The adverse childhood experiences therefore seemed to act in two ways . |
| 16 | She 'd lain for two days on the cellar floor . |
| 17 | He 'd returned after two years and she was happy with that . |
| 18 | The strength of the bureau then became founded on two basic propositions : first , that communism posed a serious threat to the United States and , secondly , that the FBI afforded the United States unique protection against that threat . |
| 19 | Torgyan claimed that there was division between " the unified membership and leadership " and individual officials , and that the parliamentary faction risked splitting in two over the issue . |
| 20 | The import of the art of scrimshandering as a meditative pastime for the Imperial Fist chapter became more evident to Lexandro when , on a later occasion , he happened to pause near two Battle Brothers who were disputing courteously though passionately not far from the Librarium . |
| 21 | We began to work on two hander pieces — she took the pictures , I wrote the words . |
| 22 | The prescription that Janice collected consisted of two syringes , each filled with a measured dose of the drug , ready to load into an autoinjector , a spring-loaded plastic ‘ gun ’ . |
| 23 | The data collected fell into two categories : those related to operations management and those related to R&D project management . |
| 24 | From the start , the opposition negotiators decided to concentrate on two demands : that wages be indexed to the rise in prices and that increases in food prices be gradual . |
| 25 | It saved two years repayments at the end of the mortgage , because endowments matured here , saving those last two years , purely because we started paying in two years before we actually took the mortgage out . |
| 26 | Then it must have changed its mind , and started to grow in two directions , a narrower tube into the ‘ mouthpiece ’ and a broader one into the ‘ horn ’ , and there is some evidence that the ‘ horn ’ end continued to get wider and longer . |
| 27 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 28 | About leaving a place when I felt torn between two people I loved . |
| 29 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 30 | Yes , I mean I 've got to say that , I thought they kept going at two nothing down you know sides , and I 've played in games where you 're playing top opposition and you can go under a little bit ca n't you ? |