Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fiery Scot was first to react when two supporters ran on to The Dell to stage an injury-time protest . |
| 2 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 3 | ‘ As these first two days dragged on I began to realise that there was no hope of saving my arm . |
| 4 | One should of course record one 's satisfaction that the two leaders got on well together , and that they smoothed over certain niggling differences . |
| 5 | Another two jackets hung on hangers on pegs on the wall . |
| 6 | The two girls ran on until they came to Vasilissa 's home . |
| 7 | Joseph Hucks now seemed a poor companion in comparison with Coleridge 's new Oxford friend , and as the two men walked on under a blazing sun , first to Gloucester — ‘ a nothing-to-be-said about Town ’ — and then to Ross-on-Wye , Coleridge 's thoughts returned constantly to the substance of his conversations with Southey . |
| 8 | Alice was tired and sat down to rest some 300m below the summit while the two men walked on . |
| 9 | Seventy-four per cent of women who were married in 1900–9 who reached two children went on to have a third or more . |
| 10 | The two boys got on remarkably well , playing violin duets , and engaging in friendly contests of virtuosity . |
| 11 | Bert went , and the two women sat on . |
| 12 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |