Example sentences of "took [adv prt] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US based Park Inn Hotels took over two London Ramada Hotels . |
| 2 | It also noted that the master of the Ocean Ranger was not sufficiently prepared when he took over two weeks before the disaster , and that the operating manual contained too little information on how to use the manual backup to the ballast system . |
| 3 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
| 4 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 5 | It took over two years of treatment and months of distress before 28-year-old Bethan Roberts found a cure for acne |
| 6 | Dr Alexander Muir resigned at the weekend after 33 years as a church elder — the seventh to go since Mrs Fraser took over two years ago . |
| 7 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |
| 8 | As he stopped and took out two keys tied together , neither of them a car key , Nenna faced him boldly . |
| 9 | Feeling like a character in a split-screen movie , I opened another cupboard and took out two brandy glasses . |
| 10 | Irina Shchukin took out two suits in a Paris court just two days after the Matisse exhibition opened in Paris on 24 February . |
| 11 | In fact ( Henry went back to the fridge and took out two bottles of wine ) , if she kept on with this present therapist there was absolutely no hope for her at all . |
| 12 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 13 | I straightened up , opened a cupboard at random and took out two tumblers . |