Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the two [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 2 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 3 | As he ran miserably out of the room , Hindley and his wife laughed loudly , delighted that their plan to separate the two young people seemed to be succeeding . |
| 4 | They 've sent me flowers and choclates , and they 've expressed a desire to accommodate the two young men who 've done this at their own institutions |
| 5 | He shot a larger doe on the run as the little herd began dashing for cover , and the Moi bearers ran out into the plain to hoist the two dead animals on their shoulder poles . |
| 6 | The first was a decision by the National Electoral Commission to submit the two presidential candidates , Bashir Tofa and Moshood Abiola , to a second round of ‘ screening ’ . |
| 7 | The Russian side had concluded that a 1956 Soviet offer to return the two smaller islands , rejected at the time by Japan , was a basis for future negotiations . |
| 8 | At no time could the department justify why they had not allowed a rabbi to visit the two Jewish children in the mainland foster homes , or permitted Quakers to visit the two Quaker children , Can all these refusals really have been in the best interests of the children ? |
| 9 | Desmond Clarke would no doubt have summoned up a helicopter to take the two naked ladies on a nationwide author tour and had them descending on bookshops by parachute . |
| 10 | One of the world 's largest wooden sailing ships is in Gloucester docks this weekend to mark the two hundredth birthday of the world 's first ship canal . |
| 11 | Iraq , meanwhile , attempted to take advantage of the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia by calling for a holy war , or Jihad , against King Fahd in order to protect the two holy cities of Mecca and Medina from " infidel " ( non-Moslem ) forces . |
| 12 | He looked up just in time to see the two red tail-lights drop behind the hill . |