Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the Senate resolved its position regarding notification of abortion for minors , on which it had adopted two contradictory measures in July . |
| 2 | On Dec. 12 a Swedish company , Brown Boveri , admitted that it had sold two presses used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons , to Iraq . |
| 3 | However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma . |
| 4 | It had taken so long … it had taken two young ensigns , a native pensioner and a Eurasian clerk to lift him up to this platform , and now he would have to get himself down again ! |
| 5 | It had taken two hours . |
| 6 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 7 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 8 | By July 1988 it had published two issues of a newsletter . |
| 9 | The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs . |
| 10 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 11 | The firm announced that it had suspended two of the managing directors responsible for the violations . |