Example sentences of "two men [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , the two men said they would not stand . |
| 2 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
| 3 | The younger of the two men said , ‘ This is Captain Sapt , and I am Fritz von Tarlenheim . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll tell you what , ’ one of the two men said . |
| 5 | He caught a youth breaking into a car and also won a Post Office award for fighting off two men trying to break into his van . |
| 6 | At Llandudno Junction would-be thieves in a boat were foiled by local people , and in another incident two men trying to steal a refrigerator were put to flight by furious residents . |
| 7 | Waterworth still wanted to fight , claimed Mr Prescott and he stood between the two men trying to get his girlfriend back into the pub . |
| 8 | Mr Lee , of Merrykirk Road , Thornaby , spotted two men trying to break into a butcher 's shop in Acklam Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | The so-called Clash MKII — of ‘ Cut The Crap ’ fame — featured two men called Vince . |
| 10 | Last week two men called at the home of an elderly woman in Curlew Close , Clacton , posing as gardeners . |
| 11 | Still peering through the binoculars he could see movement on the other boat : two men looking ahead , one of them pointing towards The Abbott . |
| 12 | One day in the spring of 1941 , as I was walking with my schoolfriend Wilma in Via Cavour , the elegant street in the centre of Parma , we saw two men go up to another who was quietly reading the paper outside a café . |
| 13 | They had er , perhaps two men 'd on the , the trams and sons 'd follow them like you know . |
| 14 | The two men looked at each other . |
| 15 | The two men looked at each other , the senior officer accepting that Duncan was about to enter a more serious and dangerous assignment , whatever it was . |
| 16 | The two men looked at each other quizzically , then Duncan handed the pictures back to the policeman and stood up . |
| 17 | Though their heads were held down forcibly , the two men looked up at Rosten , anxious to know what he intended for them . |
| 18 | The room the two men looked into was massive ; was more garden than room . |
| 19 | The driver took the little engine and the two men looked at it silently , not speaking for several minutes . |
| 20 | The other two men looked at each other . |
| 21 | The two men looked round , surprised . |
| 22 | The two men looked at each other for a moment , no doubt exchanging of those wordless communications that women contrive now and then . |
| 23 | The two men looked at each other , then turned and left the courtyard without a word . |
| 24 | The two men looked at him open-mouthed . |
| 25 | The two men looked at each other aghast . |
| 26 | The two men looked at each other in silence . |
| 27 | The two men looked small and vulnerable in their leather helmets , harnesses and bulky coats . |
| 28 | Together the two men looked again at the light wound , stretching down diagonally from the back of the neck towards the armpit . |
| 29 | She watched the other two men get to their feet , matching expressions of anticipation on their coarse features . |
| 30 | With the nine survivors on board the lifeboat moved off into deeper water and the two men checked the vessel . |