Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | League high-flyers Academicals lost 3-2 at Old Xaverians and Cabin came unstuck when they failed to convert two penalties in a 2-0 setback at St. Aloysius . |
| 2 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 3 | They produced fry two days later which were born during the afternoon . |
| 4 | They promised to drive two riders through twelve hoops of blazing straw . |
| 5 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |
| 6 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 7 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 8 | contribution will have been abolished , those on income support will still receive that extra money , which they started to receive two years ago ? |
| 9 | When they went to investigate two men confronted them . |
| 10 | There they managed to capture two Germans who had stopped their lorry for a rest , and obtained a jerrycan full of water . |
| 11 | Whether the preface to his treatise in which this comment was made was ever actually read by the society 's members is not known , although they did order two copies of his ‘ two publications on Farriery ’ . |
| 12 | Less than a day after the Solingen fire , they had detained two teenagers . |
| 13 | They had made two attempts to bomb United States military trains in Lower Saxony in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 14 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 15 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 16 | They had caught two men breaking into an antique shop a few miles away from Wellingham , a former private house at the side of the road . |
| 17 | They had spent two years in custody on charges of treason , murder and kidnapping in connection with the attempted coup in July-August 1990 [ see pp. 37606-07 ; 38239 ] . |
| 18 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 19 | They had spent two nights in bed-and-breakfast accommodation before taking a month 's let on a furnished flat close to Clapham Junction mainline railway station . |
| 20 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
| 21 | They had finished two bottles . |
| 22 | This was the autumn of 1982 , immediately after the Falklands war , and the public image of the Parachute Regiment was in high profile after its members ' achievements in the South Atlantic ; they had won two Victoria Crosses and had fought at Mount Longdon , Goose Green and Wireless Ridge . |
| 23 | They had arrived two days ago , courtesy of Interflora and Carlo San Lorenzo . |
| 24 | For years , for example , they refused to move two canvases by Pasque and Mambour , which were ambiguously placed at the entrance to the Magritte room . |
| 25 | Early in the inquiry , police said they wanted to trace two men from Ireland . |