Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stuffed it hastily back , afraid someone had seen him reading it , and took ‘ To Mother Dear ’ and his two shillings up to the counter . |
| 2 | Erm it 's a bit off-putting at the start because it 's got the two scales on . |
| 3 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |
| 4 | He said got very nasty when they scored two goals within two minutes around |
| 5 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 6 | A nerveless downhill rider can take two minutes out of a cautious descender in just 20 kilometres . |
| 7 | As it is , a penalty kick at goal can take up to two minutes out of the match . |
| 8 | Then he put his two cases down inside the door . |
| 9 | They did two hours on , four hours off . |
| 10 | He spent about two hours in with them . |
| 11 | He was discharged after two hours back into police custody for questioning . |
| 12 | But if they were short , they would keep you on until they could get another man from a different station , so that you might only have two hours off . |
| 13 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but — well , with one of your two anchors out of commission you 'd start drifting , would n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | In our own solar system , only two planets out of nine provide conditions that could sustain life , and they are Earth and Mars . |
| 16 | Either that or she 'd got two woollies on . |
| 17 | Indeed I believe there 's a distinct possibility , that the force of persuasion in my arguments will bring the other two groups over to the Conservative point of view . |
| 18 | Because it seems that Albie got himself into trouble two times over — once for the money , once for something else . |
| 19 | If you knew your twelve times or your two times up to twelve that would be quicker but if you do n't |
| 20 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 21 | And we 'd maybe just have two meetings on . |
| 22 | If I gave you sort of X to the seventeen or something , well you could put two values in . |
| 23 | ‘ We dug a new water pipe , two summers back , across the middle of the camp . |
| 24 | It ca n't end like this — you and the TARDIS , fighting the monsters , putting two fingers up to the Master . |
| 25 | Then , after a while without having stolen anything , they 'll leave , pausing only to stick two fingers up at the store detective on the way out , ’ he says . |
| 26 | It will be they who commit the most crime , it will be they who will stick two fingers up to conventional mores . |
| 27 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 28 | You may work out that the two holes have to be of a suitable size for an individual ( ? ) to put two fingers in , possibly near enough to each other to put two fingers of the same hand in , and , having established this scale , it seems likely that the object referred to as the finger stop is only centimetres removed , rather than kilometres removed . |
| 29 | and then do your other half of knot , reef knot and tuck it in straight away , you get your pin ready , have it on , either on the table or ready like that , now if you 've got too much material ever you just fold that down , there , if that 's too much , which is n't too much with Denise because it 's the right size sling , sometimes you have to improvise and then you fold if forward and back , firmly , take the pin and put it , put your two fingers down between the casualty so that your fingers are apart and there 's a space between your fingers so you can stick the pin in and out again without any danger , if you put the fingers apart like that , if you do stick the pin in yourself and draw blood would you please throw the pin away , as a matter of automatic hygiene , it must n't be used again once it 's been stuck into somebody |
| 30 | The mathematics required to convert the two voltages back into angles and hence into an actual position on the baseboard are relatively complex but once the relationship has been established the system can be made self-calibrating . |