Example sentences of "it [vb past] the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the year it passed the two and a half million mark , just over double the figure when the Government had taken office . |
| 2 | Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations . |
| 3 | It seemed the two kings were trying to race each other to the Holy Land ; certainly they wanted as little of each other 's company as possible . |
| 4 | Mrs Winterton said the campaign would be the most complex fought by the sociey because it linked the two issues . |
| 5 | So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one . |
| 6 | It showed the slanting beams of the roof , it showed the two rotten beams which even from down here and in this light looked cheesy . |
| 7 | down and it hit the two bars not the three bars , cos you get one , two and three bars do n't you ? that 's five , ten , fifteen pounds |
| 8 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 9 | The signal FX 75383 ( reproduced opposite ) sent by Gen Robertson from AFHQ on the evening of 14 May was central to the events which are the subject of this report , because it contained the two orders on which 5 Corps was to proceed in making preparations for the handovers of the two groups of surrendered personnel with whom we are concerned . |
| 10 | In the event it took the two of them , scrambling and sliding downwards beside each other , faces to the rocks , only some five or six minutes to reach the spot where the railing which Sven Hjerson had noticed further along had in fact stopped the couple 's fall . |
| 11 | Horrible and impossible it enfolded the two women in its slimy obsceneness . |
| 12 | It said the two would continue to exchange licences in the field of Matsushita Electronics 's present activities — manufacturing integrated circuits , television tubes and light bulbs . |