Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It finally fell two years later as a result of famine , having been surrounded by Frankish earthworks and troops who had remained through the winter months .
2 It usually took two men to hold the tyre and if the smith thought the fit was satisfactory — at this time it was half-an-inch larger than the wheel — the boy helping was ordered to throw buckets of cold water over the still very hot steel which would immediately contract and tightly hold the rim .
3 After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly .
4 Beside the address of the waxworks , it also had two phone numbers .
5 Other than the main living-room — with its round table and chairs in one corner , clearly doubling as a dining-room — it also contained two bedrooms , separated by a large family bathroom .
6 It also conducted two air raids on " terrorist " targets on Feb. 22 and 23 , the first aimed at a pro-Iranian Islamic grouping and the second at the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) .
7 It originally ran two pairs of stones .
8 But I had a problem in that very often people wanted a double wardrobe moving and of course it then needed two men .
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