Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 2 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 3 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 4 | Enough of it survived to show two canthari , one of which ( pI . |
| 5 | It meant spending two months living in the spare bedroom and the kitchen , the only rooms not used by the crew , while the cast — including Vanessa Redgrave , Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and , fresh from The Silence of the Lambs , Anthony Hopkins — were filming . |
| 6 | On Dec. 12 a Swedish company , Brown Boveri , admitted that it had sold two presses used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons , to Iraq . |
| 7 | It had taken two hours . |
| 8 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 9 | However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma . |
| 10 | By July 1988 it had published two issues of a newsletter . |
| 11 | The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs . |
| 12 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 13 | A jeep stopped just outside Brigade H.Q The two stretchers it carried contained two bodies , each wrapped tightly in an Army blanket . |