Example sentences of "and [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bought a toilet seat to fit inside the big one and planned two visits each day to the toilet after meals or when Susan indicated that she wanted to pass a motion . |
| 2 | These three rows , selecting the needles and knitting two rows between have created a sloping repeat motif across the row . |
| 3 | He pushed Gustafsson to five sets — and led two sets to one at the traditional break — before finally succumbing in another classic . |
| 4 | Then I saw a barrel glinting and realized two soldiers were creeping towards me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Head a sheet of paper with the date and time of your meeting and make two columns , one for your essential objectives , the other of additional aims , which are desirable but not actually essential . |
| 7 | He set up a pile of cushions on the sofa and propped two telephone directories against them . |
| 8 | These boats are to have a deck , and to carry two pieces of cannon each , and to use either sails or oars , as occasion may require . |
| 9 | Back in the kitchen , he stirred rice into the onion , added water and a stock cube and emptied two cans of black-eyed beans into a frying pan , with a half spoonful of chilli , black pepper and garlic purée . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This year the Library has used its first grant from the Barbara and James Craig Fund to provide additional books for graduate students , and to support two subjects in particular need : Law and Politics . |
| 12 | I cut my filter matting into ¼″ strips and made two spawning mops which seem to work very well . |
| 13 | With him she rode across the Rockies and made two expeditions , in the Far East and Africa , on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society , to study tribal languages . |
| 14 | I have known one idiot ( nameless ) who did not heed this simple advice and made two visits to a water garden centre in ten minutes , earning the unfair accolade of ‘ groupie ’ . |
| 15 | She was appointed to the Foreign Office 's advisory committee on the Boxer indemnity fund in 1925 and made two visits to China ( 1926 and 1930–1 ) . |
| 16 | He traversed the deserts of Persia and Baluchistan by camel , crossed central Africa at its widest point ( Across Wildest Africa , 1907 ) , and explored the Matto Grosso of Brazil ( Across Unknown South America , 1913 ) where his men mutinied and made two attempts on his life . |
| 17 | And made two partings down the duckweed , |
| 18 | Franco Boretti , a proud pet-owner from Sicily , was taken to court and given two fines amounting to the equivalent of 67p each after his dog had been found guilty of committing ‘ an obscene act in a public place ’ . |
| 19 | At the end of my first term , I was relieved of the science , for obvious reasons , and given two classes of art instead . |
| 20 | A waterfall is a little more elaborate and involves two pools , one higher than the other . |
| 21 | In the past year , it has increased the number of patients by 10 per cent. , the number of doctors and nurses by more than 50 and reopened two wards . |
| 22 | Yesterday Bexton , 24 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted two offences of theft and one offence of obtaining by deception . |
| 23 | Yesterday Siddle , of Lynmouth Close , Hemlington , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted two offences of handling stolen goods . |
| 24 | Yesterday James , 22 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted two offences of burglary and taking a car without consent . |
| 25 | He was found guilty of murder and attempted murder and admitted two robberies and one attempted robbery . |
| 26 | BRITISH STEEL yesterday snapped up the country 's biggest steel stockholding company in a £330m deal which gives it control of 20 per cent of the UK market and turns two Lancashire businessmen into millionaires many times over . |
| 27 | When I knocked and entered , Ira , with a broad smile on his face , reached down and produced two glasses and a bottle of Okanagan wine which we were soon sipping . |
| 28 | His brisk examination completed , he strapped up Luce 's injured right ankle and produced two capsules , a bottle of tablets , and a tube of ointment . |
| 29 | A third followed after two more days , when Sergeant Joe visited Mr Singleton in his shop in Charing Cross Road and produced two letters ostensibly written by the Duke of Wellington on the eve of Waterloo . |
| 30 | She was mated to Ajax and produced two litters , the first one , in 1938 , contained five dogs , four of which apparently went to India and Pakistan , for reasons which seem to be obscure . |