Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] the two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SHOPLIFTER gave the two police officers who arrested her a shock when she sent them a Christmas card . |
| 2 | A cart pulled out from the courtyard , driven by a soldier taking the two coffins down to the village church where the priest would sing a requiem and those two pathetic brothers be buried and , in time , forgotten . |
| 3 | In Johnson and Bloy ( Holdings ) Ltd v Wolstenholme Rink Plc [ 1989 ] IRLR 499 the Court of Appeal granted an injunction to the plaintiffs to prevent the defendant from disclosing or using the information that two specified ingredients might be used in combination in the manufacture of a drier for a printing ink and from manufacturing or arranging for the manufacture of printing inks containing therein a drier containing the two ingredients . |
| 4 | In Pitham & Hehl ( 1976 ) 65 Cr App R 45 , a person took the two defendants to his friend 's house and sold them the furniture of his friend who was in prison . |
| 5 | A woman saw the two boys holding James by the hands about an hour after they had left the shops . |
| 6 | When a female appears the two males start to perform the ‘ catherine wheel ’ display . |
| 7 | The individual close-ups should be shot from the same side of a line connecting the two characters so that the eyelines match from shot to shot in the way they do in the master two-shot . |
| 8 | If the mean levels for one hour and two hours are plotted , then a line intersecting the two points can be taken back to the y-axis ( Fig 7 ) and the hourly uptake calculated from the slope , thus : |
| 9 | Opposing bail at the Magistrates Court , a detective said the two women had been left penniless and without passports but were planning to leave in a couple of days . |
| 10 | A way to combine the two goals , safety and riches , eluded me . |
| 11 | It is important to understand that this ‘ code-switching ’ behaviour does not indicate an inability to keep the two varieties apart , but is used for stylistic effect , and is part of the complex linguistic repertoire of many bilingual communities all over the world . |
| 12 | Colonel Henry Wilson negotiated with Mosley in an attempt to merge the two organizations . |