Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 3 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 4 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 5 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 6 | Mummy I got two bears . |
| 7 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 8 | The rest is history , but one which records her pivotal work with the Ordinary Life initiative more than ten years ago , from which so much else has flowed ; working with Maureen Oswin on bereavement which culminated two years ago in the latter 's Am I Allowed to Cry ? , helping to get the Campaign for Mentally Handicapped People ( now Values into Action ) off the ground ; respite care ; and the initiative to get children out of long-stay hospitals . |
| 9 | Colling was standing behind the door with a coal shovel and hit the officer on the head , causing a cut which needed two stitches . |
| 10 | In the last chapter we introduced two notions of equity : horizontal equity , or the equal treatment of equals , and vertical equity , the redistribution from the ‘ haves ’ to the ‘ have-nots ’ . |
| 11 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 12 | It 's a problem that shows no sign of disappearing — while we were at Long Lartin there was another skirmish which left two prisoners seriosuly injured . |
| 13 | He was also to experience some awful moments and he was badly wounded in one battle by a splinter from a shell which killed two men immediately behind him . |
| 14 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 15 | FOUR men are due to appear in court in Mildenhall today after an incident in a Haverhill pub which left two people needing hospital treatment . |
| 16 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 17 | ‘ There was a lady who called two weeks ago crying because her tortoise had died . |
| 18 | The ash-fall itself ceased two hours later . |
| 19 | A STORE boss who chased two thieves and recovered most of their £1,200 haul has been rewarded with the sack . |
| 20 | When extracts from the HeLa cervical epithelial cell line were used in this assay we observed two complexes as in our previous experiments ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 21 | Health and Safety Executive representative Neil Anderson said Peter McKay was working on a cutting machine when his glove became entangled with a rotating bar he broke two bones in his left hand and was off work for six weeks . |
| 22 | with the dining room at one end and a sitting room at the other in which case you had two light , ceiling light |
| 23 | And in that instant she understood two things . |
| 24 | AN evil gang who kidnapped two families to force the managers of a bank and supermarket to hand over £96,000 were jailed for a total of 65 years yesterday . |
| 25 | A pensioner who pulled two people from a burning car has received an award for heroism . |
| 26 | For the moment I had two vehicles in PKB 's underground car park , Armstrong and Tel 's BMW . |
| 27 | That evening I received two elephant tusks , a heavy , ornate gold cigarette case , a large , colourful carpet and the third class of the Star of Ethiopia . |
| 28 | That evening I bought two sheep which the Somalis slaughtered ; they then gave the blood to some of the camels . |
| 29 | ALTHOUGH they eventually succumbed by five wickets , Scotland can take heart from yesterday 's performance in Stellenbosch against a team which included two Warwickshire players , and one of Kenya 's top pace bowlers . |
| 30 | Pride of place must go to the sea-lion group which produced two pups . |