Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He moved a step nearing the smaller of the two men , who happened to have two cameras slung around his neck . |
2 | A BADLY decomposed body found in the Sidlaw Hills near Dundee at the weekend is that of Nealle Wilson , a mentally handicapped man who went missing two years ago , police revealed yesterday . |
3 | Of course , there was less enemy terrain to fly ever , but at this period the sortie value was diminished — 70 and 80 sorties were common for those who elected to complete two tours and soldier on beyond the 60 cut-off . |
4 | Regulations required the direct-grant schools to set aside , without fees , 25 per cent of their places for pupils who had completed two years in an elementary school . |
5 | Turner , 37 , was a black graduate of Harvard law school who had served two terms in the state legislature . |
6 | With a little gentle persuasion , Pipe encouraged Peter Scudamore to switch from his intended mount Valfinet , who finished 16th , to the winner who had fallen two flights out when poised to strike in last year 's race . |
7 | With a little gentle persuasion , Pipe encouraged Peter Scudamore to switch from his intended mount Valfinet , who finished 16th , to the winner who had fallen two flights out when poised to strike in last year 's race . |
8 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
9 | Before her illness , Rose was a very sociable person , enjoying a full life with her husband Sid , who had retired two years previously . |
10 | The significance of this to our enquiry is that , when Robertson 's order was passed on by Eighth Army to 5 Corps , it was to be taken by 5 Corps — as we shall see later — to authorise the handing over of various groups of Yugoslav surrendered personnel , including the 15,000-odd Slovene , Serb and Montenegrin troops who had surrendered two days earlier and been placed in Viktring camp . |
11 | But Sheffield , who had survived two spot kick claims against goalkeeper Alan Kelly and full-back Ward , simply redoubled their efforts . |
12 | Maxim looked round at his taxi-driver , who had parked two wheels on the pavement with the usual German disregard for the tyres , and got a nod and a rather strange smile in return . |
13 | Florence Lees died 24 October 1922 , saying that she could not live without her husband , who had died two months previously . |
14 | At a cemetery in Carpentras in south-eastern France on May 10 , the body of a Jewish man who had died two weeks previously was disinterred and , according to first reports which were later contradicted , impaled ; the grave of a woman was also disturbed , and more than 30 others were damaged . |
15 | At the subsequent press conference held high in the stadium stand , Foster hushed even the most hardened of hacks by dedicating his gold medal to his mother who had died two years earlier , along with other members of his family , in a car crash . |
16 | This included my Dad , who had died two years before . |
17 | A sudden break in the cloud allowed rescuers to spot Michael Benson , 42 , who had spent two nights in the 500 ft deep vent in Hawaii . |
18 | ‘ They probably killed a lot of people , and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands , ’ the investigating journalist was told by Robert Martens , who had spent two years compiling the lists in the US Embassy in Jakarta . |
19 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
20 | A team leader who had arrived two minutes late one morning , refused to pay his fiver . |
21 | Jack himself was stopped in the street by a man who wanted to change two $50 bills at black market rate . |