Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two prisoners escaped over the wall of Oxford prison last night by tying clothes together . |
| 2 | A WOMAN law clerk was remanded in custody yesterday at Manchester magistrates ' court , accused of helping two prisoners escape from the court where they were on trial over the Strangeways jail riot . |
| 3 | They could not reach agreement and so in the end two definitions emerged in the document : 1 . |
| 4 | Two birds swooping through the air at tremendous speed caught our eye , and we watched spellbound as a pair of long-tailed skuas gave a tremendous display of aerobatics before settling on the tundra not far away . |
| 5 | The fierce debate between these two tendencies pointed to the difficulties — and personal anguish — women often experienced when they tried to develop positive representations of their own sexuality . |
| 6 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 7 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 8 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 9 | There were only two cases mentioned in the media where a charge of indecent assault involved an older female technically assaulting a girl under 16 . |
| 10 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 11 | After about two hours flying over the sea , they swung in over the coast and were given a welcoming burst of anti-aircraft fire . |
| 12 | Six demonstrators spent two hours chained to the fence at the R-A-F Aston Down Airfield near Stroud . |
| 13 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 14 | Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine . |
| 15 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 16 | Two coaches to travel with the team are Nicholf Cruz and Noel Humpston of Dublin . |
| 17 | The prisoner , a negro stevedore called Augustus Ciparis , remained locked up in his cell for four days after St Pierre had been laid waste , without food , half-dead from burns and shock , until his cries for help were heard by two negroes picking through the ruins of the town . |
| 18 | Two chauffeurs linger in the corner , one white with blond hair , the other a good-looking black guy . |
| 19 | That was what the professor thought about those two beetles going round the pebble . |
| 20 | Respective values for the later serial positions were compared between the two groups to test for the recency effect produced in the first group . |
| 21 | Firstly , stimuli are divided into two groups depending on the direction of turn shown in the film . |
| 22 | Children were divided into four groups according to symptoms , and then into two groups according to the presence or absence of neurological deficit . |
| 23 | If two groups acquiesce in the representation of their perspective through the same array of objects , which for one group is acceptable because it is bright and cheerful , while for the other is acceptable because it enshrines a sense of good design , each may project its own perspective onto the other ; in this case , the object permits the coexistence of two perspectives , rather than the dominance of either . |
| 24 | Losing From An Unassailable Position : I once dissipated a lead of 65 points with only two reds left on the table . |
| 25 | Etched the Bridge House from the Heck — Mr. Harden & two clergymen came into the beck to see me — they preached & read prayers on the Sunday . ’ |
| 26 | Mr. Harden and two clergymen came into the beck to see me — they preached and read prayers on the Sunday ’ . |
| 27 | These were refloored , covered with linoleum , coved at all angles , and hooks were fixed in the ceilings for suspending cots in two tiers on both sides for the naval trains , and folding berths in two tiers hinged to the sides for the military trains . |
| 28 | The border line between the two states runs across the summit of Elbrus . |
| 29 | As always Bernard , at the end of each season or at the beginning of a new season , one or two clubs go by the by ; we 've lost a couple this year have n't we ? |
| 30 | In February 1290 he received appointment as one of two commissioners to hear complaints against the king 's officials in London , but later the same month was himself convicted with his colleagues in the 1286 Norfolk eyre of judicial misconduct for failing to take appropriate action on two presentments made at the eyre . |