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

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1 However , these two commanders also remained at sea throughout the landings and so had as little idea as Hamilton of what was going forward .
2 The two fighters then stand at attention awaiting instructions to begin .
3 More like a divorce in which the two parties occasionally meet for companionship and sexual pleasure without strings .
4 The third Test is in Bombay 's Wankhede Stadium , making it somewhat irrelevant that England 's last two visits there ended in defeat .
5 In the following month , Edward broke his feudal links with the French crown , and the two countries soon drifted into war .
6 When the Occupation formally ended in 1952 following the conclusion of the San Francisco Peace Treaty the previous year , a Mutual Security Treaty between the two countries also came into force .
7 The two criticisms commonly levelled at Prince are that a particular song is ‘ overdone ’ or that it 's ‘ unrealized ’ .
8 Two workers casually dressed in navy blue shorts and singlets were already in the process of unloading the unwieldy hospital bed .
9 To take an example , suppose two mothers regularly go for coffee in each other 's homes and take along their respective toddlers , and that one parent gets quite distressed at the children running riot around the house whilst the other is seemingly oblivious .
10 The two men eventually fell into conversation , the late-comer explaining that he was a director of the railway company and that he was interested in a new branch line that was to be opened .
11 At least two men reportedly died in prison from injuries inflicted .
12 The two men then retired for goodwill talks , which one US official described as ‘ not negotiations ’ .
13 Now , with only two pits still working in South Wales , the previously endless supply of forwards has finally dried up .
14 Two boys still held over murder 600 hold candle-lit tribute to James Bulger
15 The Franchise Affair ( 1948 ) , a story of two women wrongly accused of kidnapping , and based on an eighteenth-century cause célèbre , was another popular work , later to be made into a film .
16 The short three round championship will mean that all the championship contenders must get a good result and since results from the two heats also count towards championship points , racing throughout the day is guaranteed to be close and fast .
17 Ignorant at first of the monetary value of these , nine of us including the donor , spent two evenings lightheartedly preparing for sale the 500-odd prints , many by ‘ Spy ’ , ‘ Ape ’ , or ‘ Max ’ .
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