Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent hearing of the Disciplinary Tribunal highlighted the dangers , albeit in a case involving two sole practitioners . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Repeating these steps produced a plasmid containing two protein A domains , and then by another step to one with three domains . |
| 4 | There was a fight involving two rival car dealers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The other had nothing in it but some make-up , a purse containing two pounds and some silver and a packet of cigarettes . ’ |
| 8 | He came back after a while with a tray bearing two plates . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a relief when Penry returned with a tray containing two steaming bowls . |
| 11 | This had a circulation approaching two million at the end of the war , ranking it ahead of six out of ten national Sundays . |
| 12 | A petrol bomb was hurled at police as they chased a car containing two men which later careered out of control and plunged 12 feet into a river near Devizes , Wilts , yesterday . |
| 13 | A man 's been airlifted to hospital tonight after a crash involving two lorries a trailer and several cars . |
| 14 | A man 's been airlifted to hospital after a crash involving two lorries a trailer and several cars . |
| 15 | The children were looking at a picture showing two rows of cats . |
| 16 | Such affinities are also prominent between other pavements , however : ( iii ) Two pavements from Verulamium , each of which has a square containing two dolphins with their tails entwined with the arms of cantharus ( pls. 13 and 14 ) ; ( iv ) The Blackfriars and St. Nicholas Street pavements , Leicester , ( pls. 1 and 5 ) . |
| 17 | There are nevertheless many images which seem to be spontaneous Minoan creations — strange and haunting images like the one on a sealstone depicting a daemon carrying two animal carcases on a pole . |
| 18 | Their own staff had become acutely discontented — they were understaffed and overworked , and after the hype was all over Oxford DHSS was closed down by a strike lasting two months against understaffing . |
| 19 | This is a solder attaching two discs of silver foil cupped around the copper core like the foil wrappers around a chocolate penny . |
| 20 | Mr Dennis Tighe , prosecuting , said Jordan acted as a ‘ sneak thief ’ when she stole the bag after reaching under a partition separating two cubicles in a public toilet . |
| 21 | I 'd like to move a petition containing two hundred and forty four signatures and my name on the green order page and I ask that it be referred to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 22 | The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing two excellent essays by Rosemary Betterton and Angela McRobbie . |
| 23 | EC ministers have agreed on measures to reduce water pollution by nitrates from chemical and natural fertilizers after a debate lasting two and a half years . |
| 24 | Working clockwise from the top left hand corner , is a bookmark decorated with two ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ roses and some asparagus fern ; a bookmark decorated with bramble leaves , alchemilla flowers and three ‘ Yesterday ’ roses ; one using verbena flowers , male hop flowers and old man 's beard ; and a bookmark using two wild roses and their leaves , with some small pieces of Russian vine . |
| 25 | The special feature of the two Unidroit Conventions is that they each deal with a transaction involving two distinct contracts . |
| 26 | A man balancing two flutes of champagne jostled against him and Sabatini glared at him , then at Caroline , and his hand wrapped firmly around her wrist . |
| 27 | At the time it was held secure by a crane using two chains . |
| 28 | Although sometimes appearing as a short man covered in hair , it is most often identified as a wild young bogey-horse , or a cross between a horse and a bull displaying two long , sharp horns . |
| 29 | The finished row should now have one needle with the seam stitch , one empty needle , * a needle holding two stitches , then two empty needles * . |
| 30 | The photographs are arranged on the walls of a tower spanning two floors and narrowing at the top , suggesting a chimney — fittingly , since all 4,000 Jews of Eisziszki were shot by Lithuanian guards in September 1941 , under the watchful eyes of the SS . |