Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] two [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The companies involved included two car plants , six cement companies , a chemical plant , an engineering firm , a fertilizer plant , eight ghee factories and 11 roti plants . |
| 2 | This behaviour encouraged a more sophisticated experiment which involved placing two aluminium plates 3 metres apart in the tank . |
| 3 | Helen and Tony came bringing two plate tarts made by Helen and all the attention was focussed on Moira , giving Chris time to overcome his nervousness , helped by Helen 's tact . |
| 4 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 5 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 6 | ' … so that the end of the week he found he 'd lost two stone . |
| 7 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 8 | As the event ended , they were on course to reach the £2,000 target needed to sponsor two guide dogs . |
| 9 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 10 | So Mr Fenwick agreed to donate two plastic heart valves worth £4,000 which Dave Pick will deliver personally to the Brasov area of Transylvania in Romania where the sick woman lives . |
| 11 | The A four one three in Buckinghamshire at Dunton turn between Winslow and Whitchurch did see two mile tailbacks earlier on this afternoon , at that was Aylesbury-bound due to the accident involving a car on fire . |
| 12 | He told how Stephen began draining petrol from the car , but when he had filled two plastic bowls petrol was still flowing . |
| 13 | Haig-Thomas had shot two nyala , both with disappointingly small horns . |
| 14 | His mother had suffered two heart attacks before the third one had killed her . |
| 15 | To this end he had selected two Embassy secretaries as helpers , with brains to equal beauty , who matched him drink for drink late into the night , then killed their hangovers in work . |
| 16 | When the family arrived for Easter , Mum gave me a Portmeirion tea set which I love , and Dad had found two dining chairs in an antique shop in Castle Douglas . |
| 17 | It was expected to ascertain whether the Uttar Pradesh government had violated two court orders by granting permission to Hindu militants in July to start work on the construction of a Hindu temple [ see p. 39008 ] . |
| 18 | In Moscow , a senior air transport security official confirmed yesterday that a Russian airport worker had smuggled two hand grenades aboard the hijacked plane . |
| 19 | The Norwegian Government had introduced two welfare schemes for farmers that have much to recommend them , particularly for the family farmers in the more remote areas . |
| 20 | She had to save two match points before beating Austria 's Barbara Paulus , and put Spain on their way to the semi-finals . |
| 21 | Just as thrilling but achieved in a much more orderly fashion , was Sweden 's remarkable escape against Canada in Vancouver , ( see special report on page 25 ) , where not only was Stefan Edberg , the world number one at the time , beaten by the little known , 237th ranked Daniel Nestor on the opening day but Magnus Gustafsson also had to save two match points against the Canadian hero before winning the fifth and decisive rubber from two sets to one down . |
| 22 | The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs . |
| 23 | IN THIS space the other day it was mentioned in passing that Stockton South MP Tim Devlin had borrowed two video films from a Yarm shop . |
| 24 | He signalled to the waiter that he had put two twenty-peseta notes on the table , and led her out into the afternoon sun . |
| 25 | that she could could make the tea or something you know , him having put the cups out and everything and I I put the teapot there and said put two tea bags in it and she just |
| 26 | The nine-page affidavit , filed by State Attorney David Bludworth in conjunction with the charges , documented the bruises found on the body of the alleged victim , and also stated that she had passed two polygraph tests on her statements to the police . |
| 27 | Belinda had lost two stone , given up her married man and was speaking to Ellen again . |
| 28 | Hungary had sent military doctors to Saudi Arabia and Poland had sent two hospital ships . |
| 29 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |
| 30 | But Sheffield , who had survived two spot kick claims against goalkeeper Alan Kelly and full-back Ward , simply redoubled their efforts . |