Example sentences of "two [noun pl] as he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He narrowly avoided collisions with two cars as he drove onto the western bypass and forced the pursuing police car to take evasive action when he drove towards it on another road . |
| 2 | Leslie 's life hung in the balance for more than two weeks as he lay in a coma in the intensive care unit at the hospital , which has a specialist head injuries unit . |
| 3 | A YOUNG doctor was attacked by two youths as he walked his dogs on a Middlesbrough housing estate . |
| 4 | Police are appealing for witnesses after Thomas McKeowen , 48 , of Mattison Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was brutally attacked and robbed by two youths as he opened his front . |
| 5 | Yanto looked at the two girls as he spoke . |
| 6 | On June 30 the commander of the Fatah militias in southern Lebanon , Anwar Madi , was shot dead in an ambush by two men as he drove from Sidon to his office in the Ain Helweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the town . |
| 7 | A press attaché at the Turkish embassy in Athens , Cetin Gorgu , was shot dead by two men as he began his drive to work on Oct. 7 — the day before Mitsotakis was scheduled to visit Istanbul for the funeral of the Archbishop Dimitrios I [ see this page ] . |
| 8 | Several hours later , a Liverpool University lecturer was mugged by two men as he walked home from the fireworks display in Sefton Park . |
| 9 | A taxi driver was attacked and robbed of £35 by two men as he left his office in Coperative Terrace , Backworth , North Tyneside , early yesterday . |
| 10 | Graham picked up his holdalls and walked away to the cafeteria , where he changed a couple of Swiss francs into loose change then made a call on one of the public telephones , positioning himself in such a way so he could study the two men as he described them to Philpott . |
| 11 | Fred Gilbert , 77 , hit two vehicles as he headed west along the eastbound carriageway of the M4 in Wales , finally crashing near Newport , Gwent . |
| 12 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 13 | Gavin Hastings ' conversion , allied to his four earlier penalties , pitched Watsonians into a 6-19 advantage into which Selkirk could make no dents by the interval , Jeremy Brett mis-timing two penalties as he sought to build on his initial brace . |
| 14 | Senator Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz , founder and leader of the right-wing Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) , was shot at point-blank range by two gunmen as he left the Catholic University in Santiago , where he had been giving a law lecture , on April 1 . |