Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , once , shortly after lunch , I recall I came upon the two gentlemen talking rather furtively just inside the library doorway , and it was my distinct impression they broke off their discussion upon my approach . |
| 2 | Ludo and I wait between the two pairs , watching them . |
| 3 | But if you compare the results I obtained with the two examples shown , you 'll understand my confusion . |
| 4 | Someone calling at The Two Pheasants , I suppose , or at the Shoosmiths . ’ |
| 5 | I looked at the two men . |
| 6 | So I looked at the two men again . |
| 7 | I thought of the two members of my crew who were dead and remembered that if any of us had deserved to die it was 1 , who was responsible for the disaster . |
| 8 | I peeped through the two windows . |
| 9 | As I sit here with my cardigan sleeves rolled up , I reflect on the two alternatives — having them unrolled and falling over the typewriter keys or ignoring the instructions and making the sleeves a more suitable length in the first place . |
| 10 | As I pumped in the two gallons of warm water rich in formalin and sodium chloride I felt like Napoleon sending in the Old Guard at Waterloo . |
| 11 | Through its lexical meaning of a movement from point A to point B , to allows one to represent two positions of the infinitive event 's spatial support in time — one before , and one at the beginning of the infinitive 's event — which correspond to the two representations of person — extra- and intra-infinitival — involved in any use of the infinitive . |
| 12 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 13 | Switch on the PC which sits beside the two terminals in the Computer Room ( it 's the only one ) . |
| 14 | It is difficult to fit the two together , and to know which visits in the two books correspond . |
| 15 | Even so , where money changes hands , it is part of an exchange and thus an expression of the social relationship which exists between the two individuals concerned . |
| 16 | She stared at a watercolour of a moorland scene which hung between the two windows . |
| 17 | Differences between species belonging to those families could result from differences in their habitat , but might also result from differences in , say , the structure of the placenta , which varies between the two families . |
| 18 | One of the products is helium-3 which consists of the two protons bound to a single neutron ; the spare neutron from the original gang of four particles speeds off . |
| 19 | Further , do the series of cultural negotiations which emerge from the two texts produce a larger ‘ cultural text ’ as a result of this exchange ? |
| 20 | Frequently , Kirov wondered if his Western contacts had the faintest conception of how difficult his work was , under the vastly different circumstances which prevailed in the two societies . |
| 21 | ‘ Large numbers of entries were received for all the competitions , which ran over the two days and were thrown open to the past members of the Club , as well as members of the Ladies and Artisans sections . |
| 22 | Since these particular constraints do not apparently operate upon variation in subject-verb agreement in standard English , which in turn is affected by a different set of constraints ( see Huddleston 1984 : 241 ) , we must assume that the surface variants of the verb which occur in the two dialects are embedded in structurally different grammars . |
| 23 | These are tensioned in the ‘ down ’ position by an elastic or bungee , one end of which is hooked on the bowsprit , and the other linked to a trip line which runs through the two sails to the slotted tube at the rear , where it is retained by the release pin . |
| 24 | At least 125 people who lived in the two buildings were either dead or critically injured . |
| 25 | The payroll vote ( those members of the Government who sit in the two Houses ) , back-bench ambition , and the vigilance of the Whips ' Office ensure that executive will invariably prevails . |
| 26 | What do you know of the two men 's relationship ? |
| 27 | We asked you to choose between the two Royals in a fun phone-in . |
| 28 | But if you listen to the two discs reviewed here as examples , you will discover that , in their respective vocal ranges , these artists are without equal in 1992 . |
| 29 | ‘ Why did you look at the two letters together ? ’ he asked . |
| 30 | I think what is interesting , though , is that if you look at the two amendments which are on the audit paper , one deals with speculation er proposed by the Tories . |