Example sentences of "two [noun] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This process of dealing with her impressions was dovetailed into her everyday tasks without the two activities interfering with each other .
2 Encouraged by the raucous shrieks of their mates , the two birds rushed at each other .
3 Lord Roskill 's comment on Reg. v. Lawrence is , however , not the only difficulty presented by his speech in Reg. v. Morris , but before I consider other difficulties it is necessary to set out in short form the facts of the two cases considered in that speech .
4 The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't .
5 I took her three times within the two hours spent in that passage .
6 Two blackbirds sang against each other across a territory boundary .
7 In the slightly embarrassed silence that lasted while the two groups stared at each other through the wire , there were occasional calls of recognition .
8 For about five seconds the two groups stood regarding each other .
9 In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges .
10 In the following two sections the two strategies employed by this model to legitimate corporate managerial power will be examined more closely .
11 Gharial females bury up to forty eggs , usually in two tiers separated from each other by a thick layer of sand .
12 The anemone has a flower-like cluster of tentacles around a single central opening ; the sea squirt has no tentacles and two openings connected to each other by a U-shaped tube .
13 On an untitled piece by Richard Downes and Thomas Roper , it reads ‘ Two performers interact with each other using two heavy concrete curves as a channel for their communication . ’
14 The two gentlemen looked at each other , then turned away from the house and walked on .
15 American lady says its two schools rowing against each other … true amateurs and its wonderful
16 Two probes situated on each side of the deletion zone were used : the srRNA probe and the CO III probe ( Figure 1 ) .
17 If two vowels combine , they form a diphthong , the two shapes blending into each other in quick succession .
18 The two cars slammed into each other several times as they sped along a quiet tree-lined avenue before the youths finally forced her into a garden .
19 Two imperatives flowed from this perspective .
20 For example , take two labels attached to another child in a nursery :
21 Unlike the November general election when the BJP and the Janata Dal ( the main component of the National Front ) had generally agreed on seat adjustments in the Congress heartlands , the two parties competed against each other in many of the February state elections , often creating a three-cornered contest .
22 A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash .
23 And the and the whine of the crusher you know , the two plates rubbing against each other .
24 Excavations at two sites deserted at this period , Goltho in Lincolnshire and Barton Blount in Derbyshire , have shown this .
25 The second involves the juxtaposition of two consonants not usually placed together in an attempt to reproduce a sound peculiar to the original language ( e.g. , the " kh " sound in Bakhtiari or Bakhshaish ) ; the two consonants used in this way may vary , or one of them may be left out altogether .
26 When two accents differ from each other only phonetically , we find the same number of phonemes in both accents , but some or all of the phonemes are realised differently .
27 They knew , for example , that in the Coniston Mines where a fault ran into a vein there might be a bunch , or a general enrichment , particularly if two veins ran into each other .
28 It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided .
29 The version Cranko first appears in 1850 , but the two versions competed with each other at least until the end of the decade .
30 She gained her Queen 's Award after spending two years working on several community projects including talking to young people about drug abuse and helping with conservation .
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