Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 2 | The main building has a dining-room , kitchen , TV-lounge and reading-room on the ground floor , and a lecture theatre , two seminar rooms , bursar 's flat and two toilets on the first floor . |
| 3 | But , within two minutes of the second chance , Kanchelskis had scored his outstanding goal and the championship was back within United 's grasp . |
| 4 | Only in the first two minutes of the third round did we see Eubank looking anything like his best performances against Michael Watson and Nigel Benn . |
| 5 | Two minutes into the second half Elwood 's drop goal reinforced Ireland 's victory push and within minutes the same player was on target with a penalty to open up a six point gap . |
| 6 | Ballymoney got the game back on levels terms just two minutes into the second half when an accurate throughball from Michael Neill allowed Willie McNeill to race clear and neatly tuck the ball into the bottom corner of the Cookstown net . |
| 7 | He stretched the lead two minutes into the second half with his fourth kick . |
| 8 | Two minutes into the second half , Nigel Mott repeated his move and his cross shot which brought a goal in the first half , but the ball ran just wide . |
| 9 | After Richard Eaton had cancelled out a second minute opener from Kenny Morris on 20 minutes , John Stephens shot Annadale into the lead with a superb finish to two minutes into the second period . |
| 10 | First they equalised in injury time , when Joseph tripped Johnson to concede a penalty , then they scored twice in two minutes in the first period of extra-time to win 3-1 . |
| 11 | No Sharmans subscribed to Leapor 's poems , although a Margaret Sherman subscribed for two copies of the first volume . |
| 12 | Having distributed his favours fairly equally between these two groups in the first half of 1959 Castro then abruptly and decisively abandoned his on-the-fence posture in favour of the ‘ radical ’ position . |
| 13 | Throughout the Balkans for two generations after the Second World War , the initials ‘ PC ’ had two interchangeable meanings : ‘ Communist Party ’ and ‘ Friends and Connections ’ ( Prietini si Connexiunei ) . |
| 14 | But the question remains : why were those two Frenchwomen in the sixteenth century found so threatening ? |
| 15 | ‘ But I scored the last two goals in the second half . ’ |
| 16 | The Sappers achieved their triumph with two goals in the first half , by Lockwood ( 11 minutes ) and Alex Nangle ( 31 minutes ) . |
| 17 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I want to score two goals in the next game with Roma , including one like the one I got against Pescara . ’ |
| 19 | England conceded two goals in the last quarter of an hour after building up a 3–1 lead . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , two goals in the last minute earned Oxford a 5–5 draw from a remarkable tussle with Portsmouth at the Manor Ground . |
| 21 | PORTSMOUTH manager Jim Smith was still shell-shocked yesterday after seeing his side throw away a 5–3 lead to draw by conceding two goals in the last minute of a remarkable match at Oxford . |
| 22 | Pompey conceded two goals in the last minute , and Smith admitted : ‘ I do n't know whether to laugh or cry . |
| 23 | ‘ We are funding Two Castles in the first place . |
| 24 | The brilliant and tuneful overture is full of the joy of life — but within two months of the first performance , Weber died in London at the age of 39 . |
| 25 | Shares have hit their highest levels in two months on the first trading day since Britain joined the European Exchange Mechanism . |
| 26 | The patient complained of spontaneous pain diffusely in the right knee two months after the first bowel symptoms , 28 days after the start of prednisolone treatment , and after a cumulative dose of 2.3 g . |
| 27 | It was also agreed that both sides " shall jointly make efforts to adopt documents for the verification of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula within two months after the first meeting of the North-South Joint Nuclear Control Committee " , and that inspections would begin within 20 days of the adoption of these documents . |
| 28 | However , the Harlay residence remained in the family , and Martin 's daughters still lived there ; two bedrooms on the third floor and one on the fourth were rented . |
| 29 | A new wave in British sculpture set the art world here bussing during the last two decades of the 19th century when the status quo of classically austere , cold , funerary white marble was disturbed by the throbbing emotional statements of talented young men like Alfred Gilbert ( who gave us Eros in Piccadilly Circus ) George Frampton , Alfred Drury , Hamo Thorneycroft and others . |
| 30 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |