Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 2 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 3 | The reason the two items appeared on the same day is your Editor 's responsibility . |
| 4 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 5 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |
| 6 | Like the case , some years ago , when two men died in the same way from similar stab wounds on the same day in the same street . |