Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors paid two shillings per week each to walk several circuits of these paths after taking their curative waters . |
| 2 | The tax was paid by the occupier ( or if a house was empty by the owner ) at the rate of two shillings per hearth in equal instalments at Ladyday and Michaelmas . |
| 3 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 4 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 5 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 6 | Tillie won the day , dues were reduced to one shilling for English ships , two shillings for foreigners . |
| 7 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 8 | The borrower had to pay a shilling for a promissory note stamp and a fee of two shillings for enquiring into the sufficiency of his security . |
| 9 | But I 'll give thee two shillings for the wench . |
| 10 | But she knew that Chinese Charlie would clean and press a garment to make it look almost new and she could get as much as two shillings for a good overcoat or a suit . |
| 11 | Competition on the Leith-Newcastle-Hull route become particularly fierce as other companies tried to break the monopoly and prices for Leith to Hull around 1874 were as low as two shillings for the single journey . |
| 12 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 13 | A World War I study found that those with a clean rent book would borrow a lump sum of about a pound from which between 1/6d and 5/ would be deducted in interest ; the very poor might borrow one or two shillings on which they paid a penny in the shilling weekly interest . |
| 14 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 15 | Cranston pushed the two shillings into an emaciated hand . |
| 16 | Hymie and Louis would borrow two shillings from Old Bill , and then would say — ‘ We 're off to see a customer in Hamilton ( 12 miles away ) so we will not be back before 5 o'clock . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I got two shillings from my Dad every Saturday night — that was my week 's wages . |
| 18 | ‘ Sanitary towel ’ were dirty words , and I would steal two shillings from his pocket to buy them when the need arose . |
| 19 | The men earn about half a crown per day in summer , and two shillings in winter ’ . |
| 20 | In your May issue you carried a letter from two climbers from Tunbridge Wells who announced that they had negotiated a season ticket agreement for users of High Rocks . |
| 21 | The second incident took place in November when two climbers from Liverpool Polytechnic , also climbing above the Horseshoe Bend area , dislodged another huge block which hit the road within 18 inches of one of the estate 's senior guides . |
| 22 | Azerbaijan launched two offensives on Sept. 18 , one centred on the Lachin corridor which linked Armenia with Nagorny Karabakh through Azerbaijani territory and the other in the north of the enclave around Mardakert ( Agdere ) and Agdam [ for map see p. 38925 ] . |
| 23 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 24 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |
| 25 | Execution warrants for March 7 were issued for two prisoners on death row , despite international calls for clemency . |
| 26 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 27 | Of two prisoners in goal , one may hang himself , the other go on hunger strike : the former is committing a positive act , the latter an act of passive resistance . |
| 28 | And so the Phantasms propelled their two prisoners in the direction of the heat sink . |
| 29 | Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open . |
| 30 | Europeans had now won two majors in ‘ 88 and Faldo had nearly won the US Open in between . |