Example sentences of "was [verb] the two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 2 | The most interesting story of all , however , was called The Two Weeds . |
| 3 | It felt as if it had been split in two by a cold chisel and someone was grinding the two halves together . |
| 4 | The current was taking the two boats down towards the rocks , so Harry Pascoe could n't afford to waste time . |
| 5 | Rafiq was choosing the two teams . |
| 6 | Charlotte was watching the two policemen as Ursula replied . |
| 7 | What the treaty did not do was to make the two kingdoms of France and England one ; they were to remain separate , each with its own legal and administrative identity . |
| 8 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |