Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |
| 2 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 3 | A nerveless downhill rider can take two minutes out of a cautious descender in just 20 kilometres . |
| 4 | Indeed I believe there 's a distinct possibility , that the force of persuasion in my arguments will bring the other two groups over to the Conservative point of view . |
| 5 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 6 | I 've seen the movie , too — Rainbow and I watched it together , in Hampstead , on an Old Weepies double bill : the ageless heroine walks two steps out of the enchanted valley of Shangri-La and time 's ravages hit her all at once . |
| 7 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 8 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 9 | He then took two bottles out with the same result . |
| 10 | You 's have to get two pieces out of every sixth you 'd have to cut that down the middle . |
| 11 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |
| 12 | Two days out of the fucking Jungle after nearly dying and you put the phone down on me . |
| 13 | I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech . |
| 14 | More dramatically , every day , about two million gallons of radioactively contaminated water are discharged through two pipelines out into the Irish Sea . |
| 15 | Figure 7.24 shows two frames out of the complete event , while Figure 7.25 shows a close-up of one such frame . |
| 16 | Exiles secretary John Hunter said last night : ‘ We felt we were reasonable in only asking for two players out of a possible six . |
| 17 | Expectations in the following week that the Libyan government might hand the two men over to the Arab League , and thus pre-empt the approval on March 31 of Resolution 748 , were disappointed . |
| 18 | The US White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater had meanwhile ( according to Le Monde of March 26 ) said that it would not be sufficient for Libya to hand the two men over to the Arab League ; Libya had to comply with all the demands that had been referred to in Resolution 731 [ see ICJ verdict below ] . |
| 19 | The doctor led the two men out of the small private room and into an office next door . |
| 20 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 21 | So I dragged the sledge two fields up to the top byre , and the going was tough because of the mole hills . |
| 22 | Halifax have taken only two points out of the last 18 , and And the club 's directors will decide early next month whether or not to close down following the recent disclosure that Halifax were more than Pounds 100,000 in debt . |
| 23 | Just er wh when you put an , when you put an each way bet , you put two bets on at the same time . |
| 24 | Two courses out of the whole menu would be more than enough . |
| 25 | Cross these two over , placing the two stitches from the left on to the two empty needles at the right , finally place the remaining two stitches on to the two needles at the left . |
| 26 | So potentially two nights out of the four . |
| 27 | This mesmerising son et lumière actually takes place two floors up in a domed planetarium at the Cité De Science , a futuristic and eerily empty complex in the Parisian outskirts chosen by The Orb 's French label Delabel as an ideal launch pad for ‘ UF Orb ’ . |