Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walsh , chugging along on two cylinders for most of the match , suddenly sparked to life , making the ball cut both ways and always liable to produce one that scuttled through . |
| 2 | The doctor had opened the door suddenly , was walking in with two nurses , directing them to either side of the bed as the heart machine flashed and beeped alarmingly . |
| 3 | After Rideout 's dismissal , Everton were under siege as Gary Penrice and Sinton appeared to have opened the floodgates — which Les Ferdinand promptly shut again by blasting over from two yards . |
| 4 | Yet it seems quite certain that our direct ancestors were walking around on two feet with an upright posture like our own at least four million years ago and no creature in the non-human line of descent seems ever to have done that . |
| 5 | Andrew Thomas , who has now replaced Phllips as Neath 's first-choice hooker , supplemented his work in the tight by galloping over for two tries . |
| 6 | The laibon takes us to the spot beneath the escarpment , looking down through two rock walls onto the plain , where Claudia built her little house . |
| 7 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 8 | By the late 1970s it was operating out of two headquarters buildings in the City , warehouses in north London and Milton Keynes and a packaging factory in Hertford . |
| 9 | At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute … |
| 10 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 11 | He went there and back and do nothing to the people bol er er involved , being consulted and we 've had that going on for two years no consultation here has taken place with the people who it affects and there 's nothing in your motion to say it will . |
| 12 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 13 | Wirral still await a first win but battled hard against Caldy before going down by two wickets in the last over . |
| 14 | ‘ Many are mostly torn apart growing up with two cultures and trying to reconcile themselves to both . ’ |
| 15 | Their opponents have been through the mangle recently , going out of two cup competitions courtesy of Bangor and seeing their lead at the top of the table cut to a slender one point . |
| 16 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
| 17 | Anyway when I approach a thirty mile an hour bend I usually go round at sixty thus going round on two wheels — halving the wear on the tyres . |
| 18 | I was unsure whether to make her Northern , like my own mother , which works wonderfully well with Zelma-like lines , eg. ‘ If you were me , would you wear the blue dress with the beading that everyone 's seen me in , or the new one I 've kept hanging up for two years ? ’ or ‘ Sha n't I buy the beef , then ? |
| 19 | for two weeks switching over after two weeks and repeat the same process , at the same time the other two groups will be doing personal statements . |
| 20 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 21 | Only on the final climb of Sally Gap did he clinch victory as his rival , Gary Baker , was struggling back from two punctures . |
| 22 | The good housekeeping exercise which we 've just circulated the documents on , which we 'll be consulting on in two weeks time tt er it mainly is about changing the organization to allow us to delegate authority down to an appropriate level . |
| 23 | The wife of a Sussex shopkeeper paid a woman 18d ( 7.5p ) in 1760 for coming in for two days , while Eden in 1794 reported that Lincolnshire women who went out to wash earned 6d to 8d ( 2.5 to 3p ) a day . |
| 24 | This may cut out a certain amount of light , but as there are two windows in one corner , the room has light coming in from two directions and is probably lighter than average anyway . |
| 25 | The Open in those days was one round Wednesday , one round Thursday and then finishing off with two rounds — Friday . |
| 26 | The former telecommunications installation worker is giving evidence in advance of a full court hearing up to two years away because he has only weeks to live . |
| 27 | The survey , costing £85,000 and taking up to two years to complete , has been prompted by American studies which have led to calls for the banning of some chemicals . |
| 28 | So we ended up staying the night at a hotel , The Majestic , the big one right on the sea front As usual Malcolm feigned being borassic so she ended up shelling out for two rooms . |
| 29 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 30 | Sitting down between two piles of books Endill began to read Useful Tips on Flying , but it was more about what to do when you had a plane rather than how to make one . |