Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to camp several days later with twelve horses laden with meat , they were met by a warrior named Two Moons , who announced that the war had started . |
| 2 | It was , therefore , proposed in 1953 to introduce a form of ‘ boost ’ training for trained crews on reserve status whereby they could return to a squadron to undertake two weeks of intensive refresher flying . |
| 3 | A recent hearing of the Disciplinary Tribunal highlighted the dangers , albeit in a case involving two sole practitioners . |
| 4 | The regime used the fact that it had been " approved " in a referendum to prove two apparently contradictory notions , both of which served , nevertheless , to legitimate Franco 's rule . |
| 5 | The TE Electronics Inc manufacturing subsidiary that Tandy Corp plans to spin off , says it will take a $20m charge against results for the first half to December 31 to cover the cost of the proposed sale of its Micronic hand-held computer operation and a decision to close two small European offices of the Tandy/GRiD Europe subsidiary . |
| 6 | If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election . |
| 7 | ‘ Three of a kind beats two spades . ’ |
| 8 | He imagined she would always picture herself as a woman too lazy ever to be guilty , with a certain black dash in the late afternoon , and a temperament born two gins below par . |
| 9 | If you 've mastered the basics of riding and are a competent rider lusting after some unbridled adventure , saddle up for trail riding — a trek lasting two or three days with overnight stops . |
| 10 | Repeating these steps produced a plasmid containing two protein A domains , and then by another step to one with three domains . |
| 11 | Berkshire County Council is looking for a writer to spend two months in Vienne , France , and represent the county in the ‘ European Writers in Vienne Festival ’ in the autumn . |
| 12 | Such close contact with the facts of life certainly drives the lessons home , but a blunder can be costly , and it is not always easy for a beginner to put two and two together and deduce the root cause of his error . |
| 13 | A Palestinian stabbed two Jews to death and wounded 20 others in Tel Aviv on March 17 . |
| 14 | There was a fight involving two rival car dealers . |
| 15 | At least 58 people died and more than 100 others were injured in Bangkok on Sept. 24 when a truck carrying two tanks of liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) crashed and exploded . |
| 16 | I detest the architect Francisco Rodríguez Partearroyo who became famous for using a pick-axe to create two recesses in the Casón del Buen Retiro to make room for the ‘ Guernica ’ carnival to burst into life . |
| 17 | In it , a wizard enchants two sisters , one after the other , to accompany him to his house in the depth of the forest . |
| 18 | A cask has two holes , the tap hole at one of the flat ends to which a tap and pipe are attached , and a bigger shive hole on top . |
| 19 | Undead struck and wounded by a Runefang suffer two wounds . |
| 20 | Undead struck and wounded by a Runefang suffer two wounds . |
| 21 | Undead struck and wounded by a Runefang suffer two wounds . |
| 22 | Undead struck and wounded by a Runefang suffer two wounds . |
| 23 | Undead struck and wounded by a Runefang suffer two wounds . |
| 24 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 25 | Marshall , 34 , who announced his retirement from international cricket after the World Cup , has signed a new contract with the county and will fill a gap created two years ago when Paul Terry stepped down as No 2 to Mark Nicholas . |
| 26 | It is a pleasure to welcome two members of a distinguished Belfast musical family back to the Festival . |
| 27 | The other had nothing in it but some make-up , a purse containing two pounds and some silver and a packet of cigarettes . ’ |
| 28 | He came back after a while with a tray bearing two plates . |
| 29 | Minutes later she was being ushered out of the small but clinically precise kitchenette , and invited to take a seat on one of the chesterfields as he placed a tray containing two bone-china coffee-mugs , milk and sugar on the glass-topped table between them . |
| 30 | It was a relief when Penry returned with a tray containing two steaming bowls . |