Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
| 2 | He and the Beeb 's head of drama Peter Cregeen spent two hours talking to executive producer Verity Lambert and staff on the set . |
| 3 | In the present study , we classified asymptomatic diabetic patients into two groups according to presence or absence of cardiovascular signs of autonomic neuropathy using standardised criteria . |
| 4 | Edwards won the NorthEast 100 metres title in 1990 and is likely to start as favourite after spending two months training in Fountain Valley , California , with John Regis , Roger Black , Kriss Akabussi and Marcus Adam . |
| 5 | The Manchester United winger is expected to be out of football for two months suffering from tiredness , depression , and persistent headaches . |
| 6 | Shop , which is a region near Sofia , is famous for its diaphonic style , two voices singing in dissonance ’ . |
| 7 | One of the witnesses called today was Peter Simpson , a taxi driver who was waiting in a layby in Akers Way when he said he heard the sound of screeching tyres and looked to see two cars driving at speed , nose to tail along the road . |
| 8 | The perfect simulation which has been suggested but not yet implemented in process control , power generation and air traffic control would be to have two identical control rooms and two crews coming on duty . |
| 9 | Usually she had a saucepan of water simmering on the electric stove , with two plates warming on top of it , waiting to receive the meal . |
| 10 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 11 | next two years trying to sort of get him to bring himself up a bit you know |
| 12 | Avtar , who arrived in England aged 12 and speaking no English , spent two years working with community radio in Los Angeles . |
| 13 | I 've just spent two days looking for thread . |
| 14 | A : There are two agencies specialising in cargo-cruising , whether it 's a one-way hop to New York or a round-the-world trip . |
| 15 | It uses two microprocessors working in parallel for maximum reliability , and each microprocessor has a nonvolatile memory to aid service diagnosis . |
| 16 | Two goblets slopping with wine were hastily served . |
| 17 | However , the Max basic helices are shorter than those for GCN4 by some two turns of an α-helix , and the angle between the two chopsticks interacting with DNA within each complex is slightly different ( about 14° down the DNA helix axis in Max and 18° in GCN4 ) . |
| 18 | One afternoon , after she had given up hope , stirring aïoli on the doorstep , Frederica heard the crunch of wheels on stones and saw the motorbike winding down the cliff with its two insect-heads swaying in harmony above it . |
| 19 | With two games remaining in Group One Scotland are out of contention to go the United States , but the Swiss look virtually certain to be one of the 24 nations involved in the finals . |
| 20 | At present there are two programs playing at Master levels and three others not much weaker than that . |
| 21 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 22 | Two men posing as electricity board workmen escaped with £700 after tricking their way into the home of a 78-year-old woman at Greenside , near Gateshead . |
| 23 | Water con : Two men posing as water board officials stole £80 from a 72year-old pensioner 's home in Banner Street , St Helens . |
| 24 | The runaway Prince Leonce and his veminous , thieving philosphical sparring partner Valerio , after pawning their clothes for food , loaf about in the forest in long johns swapping paradoxes like two men waiting for Godot . |
| 25 | Wooden models , primitive in design as the very first toys of all , of two men hammering in turn on an anvil . |
| 26 | From 1989 , with around 165,000 divorces per annum , we are getting on for almost one in two marriages ending in divorce . |
| 27 | Progress in the solving offshore jurisdictional dispute between Norway and Russia could lead to the two sides exploring for oil off their northern coasts . |
| 28 | two fields contributing to student progress ( except for double field students ) ; |
| 29 | Two courses dealing with English at an unspecified level , ESL at an unspecified level , Bengali at In-service level , and a Diploma in TEFL gave insufficient information for codification to be practical . |
| 30 | In 1990 the European parliament voted on two reports calling for action on age discrimination . |