Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | I give him two barm cakes and we had one each and before we 'd finished , started our second half of our one , he 'd ate the two , give him a custard and he 'd ate it |
| 2 | It struck Manville with no irony that Hayman had dismissed the two largest nations on the face of the earth to focus his attentions on just one man and an airplane . |
| 3 | The official Antara news agency reported on Dec. 28 that President Suharto had dismissed the two main East Timor military commanders " as a follow-up of the Dili incident " . |
| 4 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 5 | Abbotsfield and Carinish Court : Peter had heard the two names for the first time on the same evening in July 1964 . |
| 6 | Commentators noted that the collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union , following the August coup attempt there [ see pp. 38368-73 ] , had hastened the two countries ' moves towards normalization . |
| 7 | Tessa had subdued the two boys , Bob discovered with relief and admiration when he went out to the living-room . |
| 8 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 9 | He had forbidden the two girls to attend the Requiem Mass because he said it would upset them too much . |
| 10 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 11 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |
| 12 | She had seen the two women leave the hospital with babies in their arms , so all she had to do was discover where the van had taken them . |
| 13 | She had seen the two letters . |
| 14 | Det Supt Albert Kirby , the officer in charge of the inquiry , said that a woman claimed she had seen the two youths in the Strand at 2:30pm . |
| 15 | Mr Bowen said that ambulancemen had seen the two bodies lying on the living room floor . |
| 16 | That he had seen the two talking ? |
| 17 | I had done the two extra duties during the week to clear my Sunday , and was thoroughly exhausted with the school . |
| 18 | It looked like the escaping oriental had collected the two captives and taken them with him , as he led his followers to safety . |
| 19 | Servants had opened the two huge , white-lacquered doors earlier ; now he stood there , looking into the Hall of Eternal Peace and Tranquillity . |
| 20 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 21 | Iran had seized the two smaller islands in 1971 . |
| 22 | I had pulled the two heavy pieces and wood across the entrance to the trench . |
| 23 | Lucy arrived , drained and tight-lippéd , Jeremy had been having trouble with his girlfriend , and Lucy had provided the two a.m. shoulder all week . |
| 24 | They had driven the two hundred miles from their Portacabin compound in the village of Salahuddin at high speed . |
| 25 | But analysts recalled that Mr Parra had spent the two weeks before the talks touring member states in an attempt to secure a deal that would remove at least 1 million bpd from the oil market as demand falls with the onset of warmer One analyst said that the delay in reaching agreement had unsettled the market . |
| 26 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 27 | Before he reached them Paul and Joseph had hoisted the two boys , aged eleven and thirteen , onto their shoulders and were encouraging them to joust at one another with chopsticks from the table . |
| 28 | Henry III 's rapprochement with Louis IX between 1254 and 1259 had brought the two courts into a closer relationship , while the diplomatic and juridical presence at Paris which it necessitated thereafter strengthened English connections with northern France . |
| 29 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 30 | Much of it had assumed the two women were guilty . |