Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in two " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The wreckage of the plane lay about 100 metres to the seaward side of the runway , where it had broken in two just in front of the wing section . |
| 5 | The Lions had squeezed in two light training sessions amounting to little more than two hours before beating France 29-27 on Wednesday night in a game as grand as its occasion . |
| 6 | They had helped Clara into the world only the day after the O'Neils had moved in two years before and Denis knew his wife was in good hands . |
| 7 | It was n't until 25 minutes later that he remembered — and by then the former Miss England had drowned in two feet of muddy water . |
| 8 | The two surviving Palestinians were both captured ; they were part of a group , originally six in number , who had landed in two rubber dinghies at Naquarah after an Israeli naval patrol boat had diverted their intended attack on Israel . |
| 9 | After 63 minutes Balakov hit Sporting 's opener , then Bulgarian international Jordanov had rapped in two to level the scores . |
| 10 | A strip of turf between tapes and banners in the grounds of the Victoria Wells Hotel proved to be the kindest terrain the leaders had encountered in two hours . |
| 11 | By the age of twenty-nine he had appeared in two of the most successful films of all time and had won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl . |
| 12 | By 1974 , when he finished Music in Twelve Parts , Glass 's ideas had crystallized in two techniques he calls ‘ additive process ’ and ‘ cyclic structure ’ . |
| 13 | Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again . |
| 14 | Men from the village had fought in two world wars . |
| 15 | By January 1593 an incident involving a royal servant coming to serve process on a member of his household had resulted in two spells in prison . |
| 16 | Anna had lived in two rooms all her life . |
| 17 | The long-bladed knife had snapped in two from the ferocity of the attack . |
| 18 | The figure had snapped in two at the waist , and was prone at right angles to itself . |
| 19 | It was the crutch that had snapped in two . |