Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 3 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 4 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 5 | He punished himself through two bouts of his heaviest exercises , until his upper arms ached , his stomach muscles felt cramped , his legs watered , head dizzy . |
| 6 | When she accepted , Loretta moved across the room and helped herself to two glasses . |
| 7 | The indictment charged him with two offences . |
| 8 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 9 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 10 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 11 | Without realizing , I found myself between two groups of youths throwing bottles at each other . |
| 12 | The Company jet-copter dropped them off two blocks from the ancient heart of Vienna . |
| 13 | He displaced himself by two miles south . |
| 14 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
| 15 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 16 | Crevecoeur had for a brief , intoxicating time enjoyed intimate relations with Ms Micklemas , an affair whose firepower had been skyfilling and radiant and whose energy devoured itself within two weeks . |
| 17 | A concern with pupil autonomy manifested itself in two ways . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers . |
| 20 | It explained mathematically why the electron had spin 1/2 , that is , why it did n't look the same if you turned it through only one complete revolution , but did if you turned it through two revolutions . |
| 21 | Christina sweetened it with two spoonfuls of golden local cane sugar . |
| 22 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 23 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
| 24 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 25 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 26 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 27 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
| 28 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 29 | I locked myself for two days and nights in my room without food or water or sleep . |
| 30 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |