Example sentences of "made two " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers . |
| 2 | With him she rode across the Rockies and made two expeditions , in the Far East and Africa , on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society , to study tribal languages . |
| 3 | Macmillan made two mistakes of protocol . |
| 4 | I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much . |
| 5 | A biting wind gusting to 30 knots threatened to blow the fragile , 15-ft fibreglass hydroplane off course as Lady Arran made two runs over a measured kilometre . |
| 6 | Both teams included their second goalkeepers and made two other changes from the first Test . |
| 7 | Mr Murdoch made two bad moves . |
| 8 | Towards the top of the hill he made two bad jumping errors but these made little difference to his progress , and with Fifty Dollars More falling at the final open ditch only Combs Ditch looked to have any chance of getting in the way of a Dickinson clean sweep . |
| 9 | Patrick earl of Bothwell made two bonds of manrent , one to Mary in August 1543 for a yearly pension of £1000 , the other to her great rival regent Arran in January 1546 , not for the normal term of his life , but for as long as Arran remained governor . |
| 10 | A much closer contest than the scoreline suggests was effectively settled during two crucial first half minutes when Sheron , City 's unheralded striker , made two crucial interventions — one in each goalmouth . |
| 11 | To cap it all , the Tories made two gains , Aberdeen South from Labour , and Kincardine and Deeside , forfeited to the Liberal Democrats last November . |
| 12 | in their books Beyond the Best Interests of the Child ( 1973 ) and Before the Best Interests of the Child ( 1980 ) made two fundamental claims that were to influence child care practice considerably over the years . |
| 13 | They appeared in parts over five years from March 1755 to June 1760 and eventually made two folio volumes . |
| 14 | He leapt down to the floor and made two gigantic walls of books , trapping Mr Fractor between them . |
| 15 | For his exciting portrait of Rivera , Modigliani made two drawings and a preparatory sketch in oils . |
| 16 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 17 | Ludens made two journeys back to the house to bring remaining luggage , the suitcases which Irina had for so long kept packed , ready for the moment of escape . |
| 18 | The group recorded three demo tapes and Gedge made two abortive trips to London to try to persuade John Peel to give them a session . |
| 19 | Burt made two more fine saves to deny Wells and Daynes , but there was nothing he could do to stop ‘ Mill 's third after 70 minutes . |
| 20 | I made two more visits to Knowlton , and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage . |
| 21 | Tough little Bobby Kellard made two distinctive contributions to Crystal Palace FC . |
| 22 | It is significant that the Open University in Britain made two films on the use of libraries — one showing the use of the public library and the other , produced for those students who were to attend summer school at some university , on the use of the university library under these conditions . |
| 23 | Carted all my engraving apparatus to Rydal Mount & when there made two drawings of the Mount … ’ ‘ 5th Nov . |
| 24 | To derive this inequality , Bell made two assumptions : ( a ) the effects of a measurement at A do not affect the measurement at B and vice versa , and ( b ) all the variables describing the two particles are independent of the settings of the apparatus at A and B. Both seem very reasonable requirements , which indeed have played a central role in the development of physics since the time of Isaac Newton . |
| 25 | The KPP made two mistakes . |
| 26 | The chief rabbi made two visits , the first to distribute his Book of Jewish Thought , the second to plant a commemorative tree . |
| 27 | She made two journeys up it , muttering to herself : ‘ It 's the last thing I do for the nigger . |
| 28 | My mother made two movies with Alfred Hitchcock — Marnie and The Birds . |
| 29 | I cut my filter matting into ¼″ strips and made two spawning mops which seem to work very well . |
| 30 | TOTALLY , TOTALLY weird shit , The Disney studio made two contributions to the US war effort . |