Example sentences of "did two " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must stress that the involvement of armed forces , the police and the voluntary services will cease once the trades unions agree , as they did two weeks ago , to provide normal accident and emergency service ’ . |
| 2 | After the album , we did two or three scattered tracks and various things , but as none of it really sold , we suddenly did n't see him around any more . |
| 3 | In fact , all the shows that played there were amazing although we did two or three shows in America where there were n't a lot of people . |
| 4 | On Wednesday morning I did two things . |
| 5 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 6 | This they did two or three times , forgetting my presence , and laughed heartily at the mistake . |
| 7 | ‘ I did two jobs in the vac , you see . |
| 8 | We did two things to offset this : first of course we reduced the book fund [ the money for purchase of new books ] . |
| 9 | Born in Singapore thirty-one years ago , with a dash of French blood in his Asian veins , brought up on Hawaii , he did two years at the University of Hawaii , but concentrated on attending some of the tougher colleges of the North Shore before finally graduating from Pipeline and Sunset to take his PhD at Waimea in the early eighties . |
| 10 | Hoomey achieved his quarter of a width , Jazz did two lengths , Bean three and Gary seven , and Mr Foggerty bought them all a coke each , reminding himself to put it down on expenses , and left them to catch their various buses . |
| 11 | From here the guard each did two stages of 1 hour 15 minutes ( from 8 pm to 6 am ) patrolling the bridge . |
| 12 | By the late twenties and early thirties , ‘ bus travel had taken over most of this lucrative Friday traffic ; Basfords of Towcester ran two ‘ buses and The Buckingham Orange did two return journeys from Buckingham with Jelley 's of Cosgrove , the latter two being taken over by the United Counties Bus Company in the mid-1930s . |
| 13 | I did two kicks , cartwheels and splits then she told me to get dressed . |
| 14 | In London , with a couple of contemporaries from Cambridge , he started his own company , the Movable Theatre , for which he did two ravishing productions a year . |
| 15 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 16 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 17 | I was amazed to hear him say he did two hours ‘ warming-up ’ exercises before he did his muscle-building stuff . |
| 18 | So did two or three naked kids playing on the strip of beach . |
| 19 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 20 | They did two hours on , four hours off . |
| 21 | Two years running , yes , last year we did two separate audio |
| 22 | Last year we did two , two separate audio descriptions |
| 23 | Bobby returned to Camberwell the day after VE Day and now did two classes under Minton . |
| 24 | Until she passed on , which she did two weeks past . |
| 25 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 26 | What happens when we 're doing times now you did two sets of twelve did n't you ? |
| 27 | I did two years on account of you , Cardiff . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ As you said she did two nights ago . |
| 29 | In observing the " contrast " between " the living reality " and " the paper description " of the British constitution ( in observing the gap between practice and theory ) Bagehot did two things of significance . |
| 30 | The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good . |