Example sentences of "[vb past] been two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been two West Country boys sharing a desert tent in Fayid . |
| 2 | ‘ There 'd been two heads on those pillows , ’ agreed Ethel , ‘ and two bodies between those sheets , however hard they tried to disguise it . ’ |
| 3 | Jesus , it was one island , that was true , but the terrain made the halves more remote from each other than if they had been two islands separated by a sea channel : you could n't skip across our jungles and mountains in an outrigger . |
| 4 | Maclean also had been two games down , and had had to play two match points , before surviving on Tuesday against England 's promising 17-year-old , Simon Parke . |
| 5 | But later a spokesman admitted there had been TWO surface subs in the area around that time . |
| 6 | There had been two letters that year . |
| 7 | As already noted , until about twelve months earlier , there had been two routes numbered 6 meeting at Mitcham . |
| 8 | The first two chapters of Moses and Monotheism were first published as articles in Imago ( 1937 and 1938 ) , and sought to establish , in purely historical terms , that there had been two figures with the name ‘ Moses ’ in Jewish development . |
| 9 | He identified that robbery as occurring at Hainault ( where there had been two robberies ) . |
| 10 | There had been two areas of particular difficulty . |
| 11 | he had gone down without a sound — and by the time he had woken up , his ship had been two days out into the Channel . |
| 12 | On April 29 a church was stoned in Imbabah , another working-class suburb of Cairo and one in which there had been two days of violence by Moslem extremists against Christian churches and shops on Sept. 20-22 , 1991 . |
| 13 | That very morning , it appeared , they had lost a couple of turns — one of which had been two sisters : a singing and dancing act . |
| 14 | Sally had been two stones ( 28lb/12.5kg ) overweight for ten years following the birth of her son . |
| 15 | If she and Tom had been two men he would have been discretion itself , she thought . |
| 16 | There had been two schools of librarianship at Loughborough . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , it seems that there had been two successors in Stockport . |
| 18 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 19 | Its last human inhabitants had been two journalists , engaged on an exercise to test their powers of self-sufficiency . |
| 20 | We might n't even be able to tell that there ever had been two vehicles . |
| 21 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 22 | Sister Casualty had been two years junior to Margaret in training . |
| 23 | Fräulein had been two years already at The Towers . |
| 24 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |
| 25 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |