Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After about two hours flying over the sea , they swung in over the coast and were given a welcoming burst of anti-aircraft fire . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That was what the professor thought about those two beetles going round the pebble . |
| 6 | Firstly , stimuli are divided into two groups depending on the direction of turn shown in the film . |
| 7 | Children were divided into four groups according to symptoms , and then into two groups according to the presence or absence of neurological deficit . |
| 8 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |
| 9 | Two people , two bodies churning among splintered crockery , two animals copulating in the dirt . |
| 10 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 11 | He had to grab the wheel twice I think he smashed two cars coming down the road . |
| 12 | Again , as an example , take two parties agreeing to the painting of a house , where , in law , the contract finally made amounts only to an obligation to exercise reasonable endeavours to paint the house . |
| 13 | The guitars go wibbly wibbly wibbly splang , Bruce goes ‘ Urg urg screeeeek ! ’ and ‘ Wasting Love ’ is a bold , ballady effort played with all the subtlety of two rhinos shagging in the back of a Mini Cooper . |
| 14 | It varies in height from a few inches to two feet depending on the habitat . |
| 15 | Maureen was telling me today that erm he erm too , she took it to the garage and there was two bills laying on the table , one were for two hundred and sixty odd and were four hundred and seventy some odd |
| 16 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 17 | About two lines commenting on the Government 's erm you know growing strategy . |
| 18 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 19 | As a result of that , the federal assembly spent two weeks squabbling over the issue . |
| 20 | Note that ε and ζ respectively are the two dihedrals lying below the phosphate groups . |
| 21 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 22 | Eighteen-year-old Chris Bolton , who lived in Folly Hill , had come to the end of his two years training with the Fleet Air Arm at Yeovilton . |
| 23 | EIGHT ‘ bionauts ’ who have spent two years living in the world 's largest test tube will emerge from their ‘ Biosphere 2 ’ on September 26 , exactly two years after entering it , a spokesman said today |
| 24 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 25 | Thrashed mercilessly two years running by the Crouch Vale Brewery Ensemble in Essex , the BGBW geriatrics got their revenge last month by trouncing the brewers by eight wickets . |
| 26 | ‘ We were also voted supplier of the year two years running by the Association of Chemical Distributors , ’ said Anthony , ‘ and we now consistently receive excellent ratings for our performance from Dow Corning . ’ |
| 27 | branching to one course of action out of two possibilities depending upon the result of a mathematical , textual or logical condition |
| 28 | A spokesman explained that two possibilities relating to the disposal of the aircraft were being investigated . |
| 29 | We can hear the two dogs whining behind the lounge door . |
| 30 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |