Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the two " in BNC.

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1 Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place .
2 In the Old World , the Omomyidae were highly successful , crowding out the two other families , who were only able to make a living by becoming nocturnal .
3 They will be able to send you some materials to give you a plan for getting started and to help you think through the two important questions :
4 Filling in the two charts on page 32 gives the best indication of what you can afford .
5 It was strange to be filling in the two forms at the same time .
6 Cut off the two inches , or better still four , add forty quids ' worth of ‘ body wave ’ and it 's ‘ My word , you do look well .
7 MELROSE , this season 's Scottish champions , added the Border League trophy to their collection last night by picking up the two points they needed under the floodlights at Mansfield Park .
8 He skimmed the accompanying text , which added little to what Francesca had already told him , filling up the two columns with a recital of Tristram 's career beginning with his legendary recording of ‘ Panis Angelicus ’ as a thirteen-year-old treble at St Joe 's .
9 Cut out the two top corners ( about 2·5cm/1inch down and along ) to distinguish the head .
10 Finance director spelt out the two main points emerging from Courtaulds 1992–93 results :
11 In this type of case it is better to set out the two consequences in separate sub-paragraphs .
12 However , a new 375g pack at £1.19 was introduced on February 8th and until the old stock was used up the two packs were on sale side by side .
13 Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies
14 Chief Executive Hazel Dudgeon , fronting the course 's annual preview for the first time , said : ‘ We have got back the two evening meetings ( 15 and 29 July ) we lost last year and now have six of these on our 17-strong programme .
15 It had taken only a little practice to discover how to lie there , flat on her back , and slowly , with great care , peel away the roof beam and open back the two vast panes of glass .
16 Finally Selwyn College , Cambridge offered me a scholarship , Berkshire County Council doubled this amount , and the Ordination Candidates Fund made up the two hundred pounds per annum necessary for university life in 1921 .
17 Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry .
18 If we try to weigh up the two sets of complaints , bearing in mind the greater need of the people in the Exodus passage , we might say that honours , or dishonours , are about even .
19 The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture .
20 It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms .
21 Downing Street repeatedly points out the two have had friendly telephone calls .
22 He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them .
23 Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them .
24 Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials .
25 Kalchu had brought in the two calves from their separate pen and they were pumping their mothers ' udders , bracing their hooves and thrusting with the whole length of their sketchy bodies .
26 Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet .
27 But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence …
28 But that extraordinary colouring , the pale , pale eyes and the black hair , clearly marked out the two of them as father and son .
29 Go down the two ladders and enter the second door , walk down the steps and onto the stage , then it 's under the spotlight to perform all those great songs the Blues Brothers are famous for .
30 Gaddafi again held out the possibility of handing over the two men for trial by the Arab League in an Arab country , saying such a solution would be ‘ fine ’ .
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