Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 2 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 3 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 4 | In 678 Ecgfrith , urged on by his second wife Iurminburg , expelled Wilfrid from his see and divided it in two , with a new bishop in Hexham as well as York . |
| 5 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 6 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 7 | Leni came back with the coffee and poured it into two non-matching teacups . |
| 8 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 9 | After a patchy opening the Canadian International tipped a Mark Holman blockbuster onto the bar and followed it with two more notable saves to deny Ricky Munroe and Stuart Massey . |
| 10 | Director William Sterling had spotted a Sunday magazine photograph of her taken by Lord Snowdon , arranged to meet her and shortlisted her with two other girls to meet Shaftel ; after a couple of screen tests in full costume , she was offered the role . |
| 11 | She grabbed the French loaf and wrenched it into two unequal halves . |
| 12 | Jack snatched it from him and tore it in two . |
| 13 | And the time that Dame Edna came on , kissed Claire Rayner firmly on each cheek and left her with two luscious pink lip prints for the rest of the show . |
| 14 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 15 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |