Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nayab 's restaurant has provided catering for two functions attended by Prince Charles , who ordered 33 separate vegetarian dishes . |
| 2 | Physicists of the Joint European Torus ( JET ) based near Oxford , England , suceeded for the first time in producing for two seconds energy by means of nuclear fusion . |
| 3 | Careering between two extremes Described by one director as being ‘ an actress who can do anything ’ , Edith MacArthur talks to Colin Donald ‘ The play is all about charm … |
| 4 | This is very much the same as sample 3 , but the tucking needles are now tucking for two rows before knitting two rows . |
| 5 | One wheel operates via wooden rim gearing , driving through two sets of mill stones , no longer functional , the assembly supported on Gloucester manufactured cast iron pillars . |
| 6 | He does n't stop laughing for two miles . |
| 7 | The cumbersome and time-consuming method of voting , which involves each MP walking between two tellers and announcing his name , was partly designed to stop members sending their footmen to vote for them . |
| 8 | And it is worth pressing for two reasons . |
| 9 | A FRENCH trucker was banned from driving for two years yesterday after after he was caught nearly four times over the drink drive limit . |
| 10 | And yesterday he was banned from driving for two years and fined £900 . |
| 11 | I once defended a juvenile on a charge of reckless driving , and he was banned from driving for two years after being found guilty of the most horrific driving at night without lights . |
| 12 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 13 | He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years . |
| 14 | Neil Ashurst , 24 , of Sycamore Drive , Brotton , was fined £630 and was banned from driving for two years by Whitby magistrates yesterday after he admitted driving while drunk , without L-plates and insurance and also while not being supervised . |
| 15 | Mulraney was also disqualified from driving for two years . |
| 16 | Stevenson , 20 , of Grendon Walk , Park End , Middlesbrough , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for a total of 21 months and banned from driving for two years . |
| 17 | Magistrates gave him a conditional discharge and disqualified him from driving for two years . |
| 18 | Leyburn magistrates yesterday banned Adrian Pinnell , 20 , from driving for two years and ordered he pay a total of £730 in fines and costs . |
| 19 | Defries looked upslope again , and there was Ace : a small figure leaping between two horns of rock at the summit . |
| 20 | The only disappointment was that , at nine o'clock , the advantage gained by climbing for two days was lost in minutes , like the slow , laborious winding of a stiff spring which snaps and releases its energy in an instant . |
| 21 | So when the first stallion , a beautiful bay unbroken three-year-old , was lead into the ring , and Lindsay saw and sensed in the horse many of those virtues that a horse-lover hopes for , he found himself bidding against two knackers , until he had bought the horse for the price of dogs-meat — $185 ! |
| 22 | What opportunities exist for socialising with two cultures ? |
| 23 | After appearing in two warehouses and a mill on tour , I am sure you can work it out for yourself . ’ |
| 24 | It provides a market for trading in two types of options — UK equity stock options and Index options . |
| 25 | Diplomats say that an agreement may be ready for signing in two years . |
| 26 | Sessions last 45 minutes , and four instructors cater for a maximum of 24 children in the following groups ; walking to two years , 2–3 years , 3–4 years , 4–5 years . |
| 27 | The few in existence up to 1706 had their administrative authority vested , as in the continuing case of the public parish roads , in the justices of the peace at quarter sessions , but from that date , beginning with acts relating to two stretches of the road to Holyhead , in Bedfordshire and in Worcestershire , independent trustees took over the administration of the tolls and the responsibility for road maintenance . |
| 28 | ii The National Study of Health and Growth ( NSHG ) , a surveillance study including , each year , around 9000 children aged 5–11 years , has previously reported results relating to two effects of passive smoking in children : firstly , a possible negative relation between children 's height and the reported number of cigarettes smoked by parents in the home , and secondly , a dose-response relation between prevalence of respiratory symptoms and parental smoking . |
| 29 | Afterwards he wrote a book about his experiences , World Understanding on Two Wheels . |
| 30 | They were scaly creatures , walking on two feet and they were out to conquer the Earth and every living creature on it . |