Example sentences of "and [v-ing] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These three rows , selecting the needles and knitting two rows between have created a sloping repeat motif across the row . |
| 2 | Holyfield starts training next month , but right now is watching the Olympics and doing nothing more testing than shadow boxing and jogging two miles a day around the Crystal Harmony , the Coca-Cola company 's flagship in Barcelona harbour . |
| 3 | Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside . |
| 4 | Company director Norman Waller , 34 , admitted killing Terence Malone , 24 , with a chisel and wounding two others . |
| 5 | AN ARTILLERY duel was fought between Israeli troops and guerrillas in southern Lebanon yesterday , killing two people and wounding two others . |
| 6 | We do n't see them until they 're too late and they 're having fractures of the spine and shrinking two percent of bone less in a year ! |
| 7 | After crossing himself and pushing two nuns into a car , he was about to leave when Lady Antonia 's companion intervened : ‘ Excuse me Father , ’ he said , ‘ this lady is the daughter of the good Lord Longford — you know , Lord Longford — and she is making a study of the wicked usurper , Oliver Cromwell . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When he 's getting his serve in like that and serving two aces a game , there 's really nothing you can do about it . |
| 9 | Some of the things under the heading of work which was not allowed on the Sabbath were sowing , reaping , threshing , preparing food , spinning , putting out a fire , lighting a fire , carrying a burden and writing two letters of the alphabet . |
| 10 | They denied being caught in possession of 17 counterfeit notes and passing two others at shops in Crieff and Auchterarder , but were found guilty after trial . |
| 11 | He was also charged with threatening to kill Miss Lamplugh , 22 , robbing her of a car and possessing two knives and a scalpel . |
| 12 | Bodie had cut up through the rows of parked cars , swinging up onto the half ramp , and pumping two shots into the van 's front tyre . |
| 13 | FORMER Chancellor Lord Lawson has sold his luxury home after reducing the price by a quarter to £239,000 and waiting two years for a buyer . |
| 14 | With King 6-4 ahead and lying two shots around the jack , Corsie produced a perfectly weighted bowl that threaded its way between King 's two counters to take shot . |
| 15 | With King 6-4 ahead and lying two shots around the jack , Corsie produced a perfectly weighted bowl that threaded its way between King 's two counters to take shot . |
| 16 | They sat and finished their meal , Corbett chewing his food carefully and downing two cups of heady claret to calm his nerves . |
| 17 | Car bombs exploded near the police headquarters in Burgos on Aug. 17 , injuring 48 people slightly ; at Bilbao docks on Sept. 2 , killing a civil guard and one passer-by and injuring two people ; and outside a civil guard barracks in Cartagena , south-eastern Spain , on Sept. 11 , injuring eight people including three civil guards . |
| 18 | Each wing was to be of two storeys and providing two wards of twelve beds each with one of the ground floor wards to be reserved for mental cases and to have a padded room . |
| 19 | Dogs living longer , multi-dog households and buying two puppies instead of one are all signs of the times . |
| 20 | It is the envelope of a series of parallelograms of equal area and sharing two sides . |
| 21 | The switch itself is a glass envelope filled with rare gases and containing two contacts , at least one of which is a bimetallic strip . |
| 22 | An exploration and appraisal programme prepared for 1993/94 involves spudding a well in the JX satellite in November — the first exploration well in the area for some 20 years — and drilling two appraisal wells in the FS and WX satellites early next year . |
| 23 | Trailing overnight leader Sainz by 25 seconds at the start of the day , the British champion steadily whittled away the deficit and opened a 12-second lead on the penultimate stage , before easing up and finishing two seconds ahead of the Spaniard . |
| 24 | The purpose of the present chapter is to review approaches to the interrelationship between politics and organization by identifying and sketching two types of interpretation . |
| 25 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 26 | I think I will be a very unconventional mother , and having two daughters of my own I am appalled by the cost that this is going to erm |
| 27 | Membership Assistant Dean ( chair ) Dean Modular Course Co-ordinator Assistant Academic Secretary ( secretary ) Ten elected members of teaching staff to include at least one member from each faculty Two student representatives nominated by the students ' union from the MCC representatives Any Field Chair ( not otherwise qualified ) choosing to attend and having two days ' notice of his or her intention to the Chair . |
| 28 | Preston were unlucky not to earn a point , hitting the woodwork twice and having two goals disallowed for offside . |
| 29 | Willie craned his head over the counter and watched him measuring and cutting two rolls of grey and navy flannel . |
| 30 | You can control the amount of air by fitting a cap to this pipe and cutting two half-inch slots into the top of the pipe , to a depth slightly less than that of the cap itself . |