Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire . |
| 2 | Now various versions of Unix have been boiled down to two : one from the Open Systems Foundation , a consortium that includes IBM , Hewlett Packard and DEC , and one from Unix International , a consortium involving AT&T and Sun Microsystems . |
| 3 | Restoration work has been carried out on two towers in Surrey . |
| 4 | v South Africa : A programme of smoking cessation support for young people based on self-confidence enhancement has recently been carried out in two black townships near Cape Town . |
| 5 | A search like this has been carried out by two scientists from Dublin , Neil Porter and Trevor Weekes , using telescopes in Arizona . |
| 6 | Atrocities were also reported to have been carried out by two militias accompanying the Syrian troops , pro-Syrian Phalangists led by Elie Hobeika , and the Syrian National Socialist Party . |
| 7 | This year in itself , the single person has been done out of two pound ninety pence and er after the er older ones that 's four pound odd . |
| 8 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 9 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 10 | A prosecution was brought , and one night in April , shortly after an indictment had been drawn up against two police officers , a police superintendent accompanied by the two accused police officers , visited the family business , a café , looking for Servet Sayan . |
| 11 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 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 | This has been brought about in two ways , first , by specific EEC Directives which insist , for instance , that Britain gives preference to EEC countries with respect to her sales of North Sea oil . |
| 14 | This has been brought about by two main factors : the sale of council houses and a decline in public sector investment in housing . |
| 15 | Lanchester , who have been rained off in two matches this season , are at Ushaw Moor , while Sedgefield take on Tudhoe . |
| 16 | In the face of falling demand for its Intel Corp i860 RISC compilers , The Portland Group , Wilsonville , Oregon , has shut its European office in Reading , Berkshire , which had been run down to two employees . |
| 17 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 18 | Today 's new generation of black directors has been spurred on by two particular success stories . |
| 19 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 20 | By then he had already been ‘ discovered ’ and had been taken up by two well-known Cornishmen , Sir Charles Lemon of Truro and J.T. Treffrey of Fowey . |
| 21 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 22 | It had been switched off after two senior doctors had twice run tests on the patient before declaring him dead . |
| 23 | Thanks to the generosity of staff in LASMO 's London offices , bags full of loose foreign coins — worth about £500 — have been sent off to two children 's charities . |
| 24 | He had been imprisoned along with two other prominent Palestinians in November 1990 [ see p. 37873 ] . |