Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A character model may be armed with any weapons available to the troops themselves , subject to the usual restriction regarding weapon use — eg a halberd requires two arms to use and so prevents its wielder using a shield as well . |
| 2 | In Long ( 1830 ) 172 ER 756 , a person who was not a doctor killed two patients by applying corrosive plasters to their chests . |
| 3 | Is there ever a reason to use two disk cache utilities ? |
| 4 | I do not recollect that we ever tried it , although my father did bring me home a bottle containing two or three sticks of white phosphorus , at the same time showing me the mark on his thigh where , so he said , a piece of phosphorus has fallen while he was attempting to write on a wall with it . |
| 5 | As recently as 1987 I was aware of a situation where a fox killed two ferrets in one burrow , a line ferret and a loose ferret . |
| 6 | At least 58 people died and more than 100 others were injured in Bangkok on Sept. 24 when a truck carrying two tanks of liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) crashed and exploded . |
| 7 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 8 | Occasionally a space divided two buildings and then I caught a glimpse of attap huts , children playing , chickens scratching in the dust , pigs rooting , the vivid red of a flame tree , coconut and breadfruit trees , more what I expected than the pink-washed ‘ retirement bungalow ’ . |