Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after Monaco , a real miracle did occur : Stanley said to forget the rest of the payments to the team — as long as he agreed to stay two seasons more . |
| 2 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 3 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | ' … so that the end of the week he found he 'd lost two stone . |
| 5 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
| 6 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 7 | He 'd spotted two men driving away from a securicor van parked outside Bookers cash and carry centre in cheltenham . |
| 8 | He 'd bought two flats in London |
| 9 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 10 | He 'd got two fivers left , then . |
| 11 | Robert Lowell has transcribed Eliot 's account of another such meeting in his Notebook : " You speak , " he said , when he 'd talked two hours . |
| 12 | He needed to have two goes at it and in the end made a good five . |
| 13 | Having crossed the enemy 's lines , he proceeded to chase two Germans into a nearby forest . |
| 14 | General Mola was inferior in rank and had less prestige among the military , but he did have two factors in his favour : he was the director of the conspiracy and he was in command of all the rebel troops in the northern half of the country , thus " mirroring " Franco 's command in the south . |
| 15 | He had broken two ribs . |
| 16 | Reviving a battle he had begun two years ago with military-equipment designers , he insisted that his men needed boots of beige suede with speed laces , ankle-supports , lightweight nylon material , a sand-blocking closure and arch-support . |
| 17 | A folk and rock musician who played the guitar , he had recorded two albums , Dancing with the Devil and Family and Friends . |
| 18 | He had stayed two nights , that was all . |
| 19 | Even now , nearly seventy years later , I can recall almost every detail : the embroidered caps of the drummers decorated with cowries ; a man falling off his horse as he charged by ; a small boy carried past in triumph — he had killed two men though he seemed little older than myself ; the face of Ras Lul Seged 's young son , and the sheepskin over his shoulder . |
| 20 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 21 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 22 | He had written two letters , both to Stewart , nothing to his wife . |
| 23 | Nor had he been idle in Salzburg : he had written two duos for violin and viola to help out his fellow-composer Michael Haydn , who was in the service of the archbishop . |
| 24 | In his nigh on sixty years , he had lost two fortunes and built up a third . |
| 25 | After midnight , taking his careful , indirect route home from his dockside rendezvous , he had met two men . |
| 26 | He had chased two men , one of whom had stabbed his friend Tom Cole , 20 , who was not seriously hurt . |
| 27 | He had chased two men , one of whom had stabbed his friend Tom Cole , 20 , who was not seriously hurt . |
| 28 | Strange he had to father two sluts of women . |
| 29 | He had seen two boys steal the handkerchief and then run away , leaving Oliver to be arrested . |
| 30 | The two Nordic girls he had seen two days before were now basking like seals outside another cafe . |