Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family own a bakery and have two shops on the south coast . |
| 2 | She failed to regain consciousness and died two days later in hospital . |
| 3 | He was found guilty of murder and attempted murder and admitted two robberies and one attempted robbery . |
| 4 | On May 13 UK Royal Marines were reported to have killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded two others during a series of military skirmishes near Sarsank , in the north of the country . |
| 5 | Interviews will be conducted early in the study and repeated two years later . |
| 6 | A mechanic went to the car and saw two men beside it and a young woman inside . |
| 7 | He was also charged with threatening to kill Miss Lamplugh , 22 , robbing her of a car and possessing two knives and a scalpel . |
| 8 | Kalchu cut and stripped two stalks of maize for Hārkini and Lāla Bahādur and as they ambled along they chewed them like sugar-cane . |
| 9 | Two men were arrested yesterday after a police launch halted a small boat 10 miles off the Suffolk coast and found two holdalls containing £350,000-worth of cannabis floating in the sea . |
| 10 | We entered the Manston circuit and found two Stirlings demanding emergency landings and I recognised the voice of one of my lads , Desmond Ince , and I told him to go ahead and take my turn to land . |
| 11 | He 'd come in after work and found two cans of baked beans in the cupboard . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough reverted to their 4–5–1 away formation and climbed two places in the promotion race with a smash-and-grab win at Swindon . |
| 13 | Select the needles and move the lace carriage to the left , as shown by the straight arrow and knit two rows . |
| 14 | You have one of the symbols beginning with 6 again , but this should , by now , be almost automatic : ‘ Knit six rows , operate the lace carriage according to the arrow and knit two rows to set the lace ’ . |
| 15 | Sheffield City Council simply refused to implement the Act and employed two officers to persuade tenants to withdraw applications to purchase . |
| 16 | Burglars got into the Alec Hunter High School in Braintree by forcing a rear door at the sports hall and stole two video recorders and a Pye colour TV worth a total of £700 . |
| 17 | But I have a gem of a nun who 's a wizard with a needle , and after she 'd taken a tuck in the waist and put two inches on the hem , they looked almost tailor-made . ’ |
| 18 | Back in the kitchen , he stirred rice into the onion , added water and a stock cube and emptied two cans of black-eyed beans into a frying pan , with a half spoonful of chilli , black pepper and garlic purée . |
| 19 | Britain was later found guilty of breaching the European Convention on Human Rights and the ruling played a key role in forcing the Government to put MI5 on a statutory footing and create two tribunals to deal with complaints . |
| 20 | THE United States yesterday alleged that planes that bombed targets in eastern Bosnia last weekend flagrantly violated a UN no-fly zone and said two Americans are part of a UN team located near the target area . |
| 21 | Company director Norman Waller , 34 , admitted killing Terence Malone , 24 , with a chisel and wounding two others . |
| 22 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 23 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 24 | He was obviously satisfied that I was on the level and reserved two birds on the spot , £35 each . |
| 25 | Harvey poured two glasses of milk and put two doughnuts on to paper plates . |
| 26 | Place the slide or peel mount into the negative carrier of a photographic enlarger and project the image on to an international A4 size sheet of printing paper of appropriate grade , determine the exposure and print two copies . |
| 27 | Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside . |
| 28 | To be honest , after paying 2.50 for the shareware disc and 10.00 for the registration fee you would save yourself money and disappointment if you went to your local bookshop and bought two books on sales techniques . |
| 29 | In an explosive second half Bangor added a further two goals , the Down keeper saved a flick , Burgon hit the post and had two attempts taken off the line . |
| 30 | Two men went into the shop and grabbed two tills containing about £1,000 . |