Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 2 | Well you either left the line for me to try two or three mixes for custom purposes . |
| 3 | After him came two men in yellow raincoats with their hands behind their backs , and then two other men in white with guns . |
| 4 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 5 | What is known of them suggests two strong influences : Poland 's ‘ Big Bang ’ and Mr Gorbachev 's new personal economic adviser , Mr Nikolai Petrakov . |
| 6 | It must have helped both of you to have two galleries on one site ? |
| 7 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 8 | In front of him sat two folders . |
| 9 | There 's talk of him opening two new salons in New York and Milan . |
| 10 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 11 | Part of it includes two bypasses north of Oxford . |
| 12 | Is it difficult for you to carry two or three shopping bags ? |
| 13 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 14 | A few yards behind them came two of the gardeners and the young detective on duty at the nursery that morning . |
| 15 | Behind them came two of the Sheikh 's men and a Pakistani male nurse . |
| 16 | Across that fold of land behind him come two sporty types in joggers . |
| 17 | Behind him stood two Han servants who , after a moment 's hesitation , entered the room and began to dry Berdichev with soft towels . |
| 18 | The man was dressed in a combat jacket and jeans , and behind him stood two more men , their hair cropped short , dressed in a similar fashion but holding two flags , a Union Jack and a red flag with a cross on it . |
| 19 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 20 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 21 | With him sat two of his colleagues ; leathery , beery-voiced , — total weight about 750 lbs . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's unusual to go into a game with Arsenal with us losing two , and them losing three games in a row . |
| 23 | The range before them contained two separate crescendi : Great Ararat , a bulky , broad-shouldered mass like a buttressed dome , and Little Ararat , some four thousand feet lower , an elegant cone with smooth and regular sides . |
| 24 | On the top of the rockface before him stood two practical looking young women in their early twenties . |
| 25 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 26 | In it stand two heroes playing the lyre ( one no doubt Orpheus ; a third figure is lost ) , and at either end , outside the ship , a horseman , the Dioscuri again : and all these figures are absolutely frontal like statues . |
| 27 | Near the fireplace a table had been installed , and on it placed two bottles . |
| 28 | Beside it lay two very dead herrings ' heads . |
| 29 | This term ‘ natural ’ is inherently confusing for it has two distinct meanings . |
| 30 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |