Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The adverse childhood experiences therefore seemed to act in two ways . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We began to work on two hander pieces — she took the pictures , I wrote the words . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 11 | These were quite large , and some prisoners chose to share with two others rather than face solitude . |
| 12 | We managed to get in two dramatic runs under the Aiguille Vert and a great run down the Italian Bowl before lunch , finishing off the day by skiing the famous and steep Pas de Chevre . |
| 13 | Oxford magistrates have started issuing liability orders against people summonsed to appear before two special courts this afternoon for not paying their Poll Tax . |
| 14 | She learned to pray at two or three , and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven . |
| 15 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |
| 16 | In the old days the boys learned to step on two bricks . |
| 17 | This time we planned to take in two other Munros on the northern ridge of the corrie , Carn Liath and Stob Poite Coire Ardair , before dropping down to the window and back up on to Creag Meagaidh 's vast plateau . |
| 18 | The haemoglobin concentration continued to fall for two days after his admission , reaching a nadir of 61 g/l . |
| 19 | The security search fee was non-returnable even if a loan was not granted , and increased by a shilling for every mile the searcher had to go beyond two miles . |
| 20 | ‘ I had to come before two great nations died . |
| 21 | Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons . |
| 22 | Made from resin , whiting , paraffin wax and linseed oil , fused on to a heavy backing paper , then left to mature for two weeks . |
| 23 | The actuary had to choose between two different methods . |
| 24 | Forced to face up to her own fears and failed expectations , it was as if Belinda had to deal with two babies : one was the theoretical idea of a baby with Down 's syndrome , the other was Sophie herself . |
| 25 | THE Chancellor had to deal with two major issues in framing yesterday 's Budget . |
| 26 | THE Chancellor had to deal with two major issues in framing yesterday 's Budget . |
| 27 | As in 1923 , Labour had to fight on two fronts ; as in 1923 , the Liberals were , in many ways , a more dangerous enemy than the Conservatives . |
| 28 | Another of the better northern horses , Jimmy FitzGerald 's Sapience , got a taste of future assignments when he had to plough through two miles of softening ground in the Jockey Club Cup . |
| 29 | We had to withdraw from two major contracts . |
| 30 | And if you had to seek through two thousand people to find your pair of suitable parents , does that mean that — let me see — only point naught naught one of the population will be considered tit for parenthood ? |