Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] two [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So one of my giants saunters over and kicks the two miserable chickens into positions suitable for having their shoes and trousers pulled off .
2 Ian , Maureen and Paul , with representatives from each C&P works , formed a cross-function CAT which looked into the problem , designed a new system and scrapped the two useless ones .
3 In 1898 Emma , Lady Sherborne , converted the Lodge into her dower house , built two little lodges to herald its and her own grandeur and to house her staff , destroyed the staircase and made the two long rooms into four apartments .
4 In the Usnea-Andreaea association of lichens and mosses the two named genera are usually represented , together with other species of lichens and algae .
5 Her Majesty has honoured the Works by visiting it on three occasions , the first on 11 March 1948 as Princess Elizabeth , when she toured the Works and inspected the two new saloons that had been converted from two ex-Chairman 's Saloons ( built Wolverton 1942 ) for the personal use of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh .
6 The chair is made by folding the mattress and inserting the two opposite ends into two fabric pockets .
7 Erlich lifted the sheet further and studied the two gaping exit wounds .
8 Instead of using a jack to take the weight , Jos turned his back on the front bumper , bent his knees and lifted the two leading tyres clear of the ground .
9 Thus , the most useful way of analysing the first two precedents is to compare the provisions in each of them which relate to the same contractual issues and consider the two different approaches .
10 So each day , after the small chores of cleaning kitchen , making beds and cleaning the two main bathrooms , she would also perform a thorough cleaning of one room , washing mirrors and windows , waxing any visible wooden floors , cleaning the small ornaments , dusting ceilings and walls and furniture surfaces , and vacuuming .
11 Myself , I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box .
12 The fellow stepped back , affronted by the question , but Corbett opened his hand and showed the two silver coins .
13 Lewis took the envelope handed him , postmarked Stratford-upon-Avon , and withdrew the two hand-written sheets .
14 She helped him push the motorbike combination over the cliffs into the sea , and drop the two dead men down a deep narrow crevice where they were n't likely to be discovered .
15 After French Museums proved unable to agree over the price at which the paintings should go to the Museum of Melun , however , France 's Monuments Historiques moved in and declared the two still lifes the first paintings , after van Gogh 's ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , to be historic monuments and thus unable to leave France .
16 Her nimble fingers began to caress the wrinkled pouch which was his scrotum , and to fondle the two unequal balls which were his testicles ; while her soft lips slid erotically down his shaft taking more and more of his quickly swelling cock into her sweet mouth .
17 They tried to reconcile the different strengths , ranges and parity properties of the weak and electromagnetic interactions , and to convert the two separate theories into a unified theory .
18 This encouraged an end to labour force participation and established the two arbitrary ages as customary retirement ages .
19 Rather they explore the possibilities of rhythm and use the two contrasting guitars to show every instrument does n't have to play the same melody .
20 In the last six lines of the poem Gunn balances and presents the two conflicting viewpoints for Brad and John 's action .
21 When darkness had fallen , Bi ā and Sa kar climbed the ladder to the upper roof of Kalchu 's house and brought the two copper kettledrums out of the shrine at the back .
22 His heart will have started to race as he looked left and right and saw the two main practice strips .
23 He touched Doyle 's shoulder and saw the two gaping wounds , then noticed the third in the chest , above the heart .
24 So far from disabling local authorities from pursuing a social policy and achieving the two great purposes of subsidised housing ,
25 Though Spouse says Elspeth defies the idea that You Ca n't Take It With You and will join her ancestors wearing her best tweed and Celtic silver and clutching the two cut-glass decanters he has always coveted .
26 But in order to understand changes in the number of heroin users across time we need to unpack and examine the two opposing components of prevalence : incidence and outcidence.1
27 Newby therefore introduces one further element into the rural deprivation model , namely the relativity of deprivation , and reasserts the two basic problems of the model , the apparent well-being of rural areas based on their attractive environment , and the difficulty of defining deprivation when it is spread in small pockets over much of the countryside .
28 Prominent white rump is best field mark , together with pure white underparts ; but cf. the two white-rumped swifts ( p. 187 ) and Red-rumped Swallow .
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