Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fed mints to dray horses , said hello to a caged European eagle owl called Gonzo and let two barn owls fly on and off his arm as a smiling crowd clapped and asked for autographs . |
| 2 | The dam itself — 45 miles west of Exeter and completed two months ago — is 430 metres across and 40 metres high . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 5 | I plan to buy a Discovery 200 TDi and have two questions , Firstly , tyres . |
| 6 | He qualified with Whinney Murray and spent two years with Peat Marwick in Sydney , where he developed a vague ambition to work with growing companies . |
| 7 | I then left Hamptons and spent two months at the Berlitz School of Language in London . ’ |
| 8 | You also run a big Chrysler and have two addresses , one here in Mexico City , the other in Cuernavaca . |
| 9 | He now lives in Prague and has two children . |
| 10 | In the summer of 1989 , as a Standard Liege player , Rosenthal put pen to paper on a deal with Udinese and spent two weeks there . |
| 11 | She was mated to Ajax and produced two litters , the first one , in 1938 , contained five dogs , four of which apparently went to India and Pakistan , for reasons which seem to be obscure . |
| 12 | He has worked nearly all his life for the Woodbridge firm of Notcutts and spent two years as a student at the world-famous Wisley garden centre , where he was guided by former Notcutts managing director Frank Knight . |
| 13 | While in Cumbria , he had obtained leave from Earl Leofric to ride south through Mercia and spend two days in the quiet of Oswestry with Thorfinn 's periglour Sulien , who had travelled from Llanbadarn to meet him . |
| 14 | They are centred around a flower festival at St John 's from today until Sunday and include two organ recitals by Dr Donald Davison and an exhibition on the history of Malone parish , which will be presented by parishioner Dr Paul Larmour , the writer Take it from me , nobody knows more about the past of that part of Belfast than Paul . |
| 15 | The jury has heard Magee got out , walked up to Special Constable Goodman and fired two shots into his chest . |
| 16 | The school is an all girls , comprehensive school in Newcastle Upon Tyne and has two libraries on the upper and lower sites of the school . |
| 17 | He consumed a bottle of Frascati and smoked two cigarettes , then turned green , almost passed out , and fell asleep sitting up in the chair . |
| 18 | Ottaway , who is stationed at Catterick and has two children , even wrote his first eight-hour assignment for his last course in the cargo hold of the Hercules as they flew out to the Gulf battle zone last year . |
| 19 | The final total was 606 , scored in only ten hours of excellent batsmanship , although it was widely felt that the England selectors had helped them along by omitting Foster and playing two spinners , Cook and Miller , on a pitch of low bounce . |
| 20 | Born in Croydon , Surrey , he is married to Susan and has two sons . |
| 21 | After periods with Hearts and the American club Phoenix Infernos , he settled in Edinburgh and bought two pubs , an ill-advised business venture which eventually collapsed . |
| 22 | Representing Jamaica , he won the 1948 440 yards Olympic title in London and added two silvers to his haul . |
| 23 | A sneak thief walked into a house at Reid Terrace , Guisborough and stole two mountain bikes . |
| 24 | For example , when I left Clifton and had two years to kill before Cambridge , I went back and taught at my old prep school for £5 a week . |
| 25 | Ellen , unencumbered with luggage , had already reached Wavebreaker and taken two plastic fenders from a locker . |
| 26 | The Revd T. S. Holmes speculated that he was the son of Thomas and Isabel de Bubwith and had two brothers , Henry and Thomas . |