Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two prisoners refused the offer of early release in exchange for forfeiting their fee as volunteers . |
| 2 | HIT man Chris Hackney scored two gems to give the Jewellery Division victory over battling Wedgwood Barlaston and win the Group 's soccer tournament . |
| 3 | It then takes a further two minutes to suspend the inner under the fly . |
| 4 | CARLISLE 'S George Oghani took just two minutes to hit the back of the net . |
| 5 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 6 | In the event , by the intervention of the umpire , Norrish was given enough room after two minutes to grasp the stream and she held on to her advantage with great skill until Oxford were clear and the race was won . |
| 7 | Start the music and record one or two minutes to begin the all-important process of deep relaxation . |
| 8 | Prior to cycling , the reaction was incubated at 72°C for two minutes to repair the single stranded gap between linkers and cDNA . |
| 9 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 10 | Pathological examination of the resected specimens in two cases showed the typical appearance of Dieulafoy 's lesion . |
| 11 | Two cases illustrate the point . |
| 12 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 13 | County workers travelled in less technological gritters , snow ploughs and snow buckets and spent two hours dragging the expensive machine back on to the road . |
| 14 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 15 | It took more than two hours to control the flames at the Publicity Blinds factory on Regent Street in Northampton . |
| 16 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 17 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 18 | I spent half an hour painting layer upon layer over the hole and went to bed , and in the morning took two hours picking the varnish off because I 'm quite hairy , and then the damn thing moved again . |
| 19 | You can get a train to Green which and happily spend the next two hours watching the marathon . |
| 20 | They had already taken the play to Lancaster as well as performing it in Durham , and now had the assembly of the pageant down to a fine art , taking about two hours to mount the superstructure . |
| 21 | MPs spent two hours discussing the make-up of a committee to draw up a new system of presidential power and cabinet veto , and it was significant that the 12 names mentioned for the committee included several Christian deputies , but only one Maronite . |
| 22 | You 've probably taken two hours getting the stuff out and then putting it back in again , and if you move it you 've taken a lot longer . |
| 23 | It takes me another two hours to reach the top , which provides a view down into the crater which looks , from this height , like a small , almost perfectly oval park with artfully sited clumps of trees and lakes . |
| 24 | It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm . |
| 25 | Police took two hours to find the wreckage and the bodies of the couple . |
| 26 | It took him nearly two hours to find the hole into the mine . |
| 27 | Cllr Johnston said it took the city solicitor 's department two hours to find the application forms , after he had asked why interviews had not been held . |
| 28 | The fact that all the nation 's radio stations , including City Radio , had spent two hours denouncing the hoax call of the breakfast hour was irrelevant . |
| 29 | He spent two hours dying the jockstrap . |
| 30 | Both buildings caught fire after the explosion and at least 10 fire engines spent more than two hours fighting the flames , police said . |